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Bonds is hitting .340, with 44 home runs and 88 RBIs. 88 RBIs? How could he win MVP, Brenda Lee asks. He’s only got 127 hits! He has 21 doubles! Well, Brenda Lee, read Moneyball. Billy Beane will tell you. Normal baseball statistics don’t always tell you the entire story. To see Barry’s true worth, you’ve got to look at walks...
Only 10 percent of the country’s normal winter wheat harvest will be reaped this month. There are no seeds available in the country, which was once self-sufficient and a leader in Africa. Plantings for subsistence maize and cash crops will be much reduced this October and November. The money-earning tobacco crop was 20 percent smaller this year than before. Inflation is running at 600 percent per year—and rising. The Zimbabwe dollar, once on par with the U.S. dollar, is now devalued to a 6000 to 1 ratio with American currency. Under these...
...pedometer clipped onto his belt counts all 162 stairs on the eight-floor ascent to his Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital office—along with more than 11,000 other steps on a normal...
...seized during the recent outbreak. With 300 dead, Hong Kong become known as ground zero for the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, laying low an already stumbling economy and devastating the local travel industry. During the height of the panic, the airport handled just 20% of its normal passenger flow, and hotel occupancy rates fell to less than 20%. Among the no-shows were the Rolling Stones, who canceled a much anticipated concert, although they will appear at a festival in the harbor in November...
...then. As overworked medical officials covered in chemical-warfare gear raced to the next hot spot, multinationals were evacuating staff, and international trade fairs were being rescheduled. "It was really scary," recalls Cliff Wallace, managing director of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which is back to its normal slew of shows...