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Indeed, promoter Bob Arum, who manages welterweight champ Oscar De La Hoya, dropped Lucia Rijker, considered to be among the sport's best fighters, and now sets bouts for an NFL cheerleader, a topless dancer and boxing's infamous Playboy cover girl Mia St. John. Known more for her pink hot pants than her ring skills, St. John takes home about the same per fight as Ali and Frazier-Lyde...
...ethics of the research. "Finally there is a very possible solution to conquering diseases that were always thought incurable," says actor Christopher Reeve, who has been paralyzed since his spinal cord was crushed in a fall from a horse in 1995, and who, along with former Senator Bob Dole and others, is scheduled to testify. "This research should go forward as fast as possible," Reeve says (see his accompanying Viewpoint). To that end, Senators Specter, a Republican, and Tom Harkin of Iowa, a Democrat, have introduced a bill to lift the ban. Just how far they...
Well, it certainly sounds promising, but I worry about all those traditions being lost. I refer to the spate of online universities that are being planned--cyberspace institutions that will compete with, possibly replace, established schools such as Harvard, Yale and Bob Jones. Skeptical of their efficacy, Stanley Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education, said that higher learning means more than mere mastery of content. "It involves judgment, analysis, synthesis, communication, creativity and innovation," he noted. That may be so, but fortunately such achievements have never been associated with the college experience. My concern is what else will...
...BOB GREENBERG (3), programmer. Now: makes golf software; EW: $20 million...
...BOB O'REAR (8), chief mathematician. Now: cattle rancher; EW: $100 million...