SPORTS
Cook’s fastball sinking, but his career is not
Aaron Cook has been at various times sensational, perplexing and heroic. The one thing he has not been is ordinary. Once a floundering prospect, Cook enters this baseball season capable of producing the finest year ever by a Colorado Rockies starter. His career is rising because of supreme faith in a sinking fastball. 1B
DENVER & THE WEST
Educators are divided over value of 51st science fair
The halls of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will be filled Monday with about 200 entries in the two-day Denver Metro Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The researchers – sixth- to 12th-graders – will be there, too. However, on the eve of the event’s 51st anniversary, area science educators are deeply divided about the fair’s value. To some, it’s become an overly bureaucratic hassle that takes too much time and offers nothing to most students. To others, it remains the best way to help the young understand, and get excited by, the nature of science. 1C
STYLE
How to do lunch and not embarrass
Lunch can make or break a deal in today’s business world. When 40 percent of all deals today are made over a meal, avoid gaffes that might give a client a reason not to do business with you, says Jacqueline Whitmore, a consultant and author of “Business Class: Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work.” “Whenever we make a mistake such as talking with a mouthful of food, ordering the wrong kinds of foods or holding our fork like a shovel, we ruin a relationship and diminish our personal brand,” Whitmore says. 1L
