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...necessarily mean the Veecks will sign Henderson; merely that as last season's last-place team, they have the right to kick off the action. The rumor is the bidding will open at a record-high level for a single player, $57, and top out somewhere at a hitherto unthinkable $70, more than a quarter of a team's entire budget. The view around the league is that the Amaros, the preseason favorite with a formidable squad of returning wall bangers, need only to sign Henderson to have a nearly preemptive claim on the pennant...
...quark, a basic building block of matter that is predicted by theory but that other scientists believe still remains undiscovered. In the second, his team's experiments picked up the signs of what would become known as monojets; Rubbia boldly theorized that the monojets might signal a hitherto undetected particle. If so, Rubbia would have his second Nobel-class discovery within two years. A discovery of this importance was so tempting, according to Taubes, that Rubbia wrote a paper on the apparent finding, rushed it to the journal Physics Letters before more than a ; small fraction of his team members...
...many doctors that fetal-cell surgery could soon become an important medical tool. In the People's Republic of China, physicians have used fetal-cell implants to treat diabetics. In Sweden, researchers have performed fetal-brain-cell transplants to rid rats of Parkinson's disease, a progressive and hitherto incurable neural disorder. In the U.S. and elsewhere, fetal-cell experiments with animals have shown promise of treatments for a host of other human disorders, ranging from blood diseases like thalassemia to paralysis caused by spinal-cord damage. Says Neurosurgeon Barth Green of the University of Miami: "This field...
UNKNOWN CHAPLIN (PBS). Hitherto unseen footage of the great filmmaker at work. Assembled with uncommon care and intelligence, this entry in the American Masters series illuminated a genius...
...their two-day conclave, the 31-member Council of Institutional Investors, a group of pension-fund managers who control assets of nearly $200 billion, had endorsed a ringing "Shareholders Bill of Rights," intended as a challenge to every major U.S. corporate boardroom. Among other things, the group of hitherto largely passive investors drawn chiefly from the public sector demanded a new voice in all "fundamental decisions which could affect corporate performance and growth." Predicted Brenda Steinhour, a money- management executive who observed the session: "Proxy power is going to be a major issue in the world of investments...