Translation: The best performers were the sorts of fuddy-duddy stocks (see table) that most investors assume will be duds and shun.

FORBES: Money & Investing

Chicago Deep Dish Pizza: New York or Neapolitan style pizza does not ship well, but deep dish travels magnificently, losing very little in translation, and since the best deep dish pizza, unlike the best thin crust pizza, does not require a special ultra-hot coal or wood burning oven, it lends itself to heating at home.

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The 60-year-old writer equalled the record of his friend and rival, the late Ted Hughes, after his translation of Anglo Saxon epic poem Beowulf was named the best book of 1999 at a ceremony in The Brewery, near London's Barbican.

BBC: Heaney wins Whitbread book prize

Translation: You've got to dig to find your own best swing.

WSJ: Golf's Biggest Delusions | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport

Translation: They were almost three times better than an average NL club, the best mark ever for a team that failed to go all the way.

FORBES: Baseball

Translation: If you're willing to plunk down a few bones on a new computer at Best Buy next year, you're going to get something better, for less, than you could before.

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