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...deformed children, the doomed drug was abruptly withdrawn. Now it is making a quiet comeback. Andrulis Pharmaceuticals of Beltsville, Md., and Pediatric Pharmaceuticals of Westfield, N.J., have asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve thalidomide for experimental use. Andrulis wants it for a clinical study of patients with bone-marrow transplants. By suppressing the immune response, thalidomide may prevent the new marrow from attacking the body. Pediatric plans to provide the drug to investigators of lupus and AIDS-related mouth ulcers, which thalidomide could curtail. These small firms may have the field to themselves -- giant drugmakers are still unlikely...
What do you give the farmer who has everything? How about a copy of the Lawyer's Guide to Payment Limitations, a $20 book for farmers (and their financial advisers) who want to bone up on ways to skirt the law that limited agricultural subsidies to $250,000 a person. A brochure for the 195-page opus boasts that it "contains annotated text, checklists, and sample pleadings" to help haymakers boost their government-supported income...
...aide to Secretary of State James Baker. "Their view is that Bessmertnykh has his own line of communication to Baker and that Komplektov's well-known tough views mean that he will be a figurehead ambassador only. The theory is that Bessmertnykh and Gorbachev have cleverly thrown a bone to the conservatives, and that Komplektov can do less damage in Washington than in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow...
...MULE BONE. Famed among scholars of black literature as an intriguing might- have-been, this 1930 collaboration between Harlem poet Langston Hughes and fiction writer Zora Neale Hurston needed 61 years, and further tinkering, to make it to Broadway. The result, a fable set in a small Florida town, is vibrantly acted and full of charm, its dialectal richness enhanced by twangy Taj Mahal songs...
Three-pointers: Maher 2, Healey; Burke, Bone, Fowler. Rebounds: Harvard 42 (Mazanec 10); Dartmouth 45 (Stuebner 15). Assists: Harvard 14 (Kosh 4, Mazanec 4); Dartmouth 10 (Gilmore 6). Steals: Harvard 10 (Healey, Kosh, Mazanec, Wambach 2); Dartmouth 11 (Gilmore 7). Blocks: Harvard 4 (Flandermeyer, Mazanec 2); Dartmouth 1 (Stuebner). Fouled Out: Webeck. Total Fouls: Harvard 16; Dartmouth 13. Turnovers: Harvard 23; Dartmouth...