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When Time Warner last week put forth a novel financing plan designed to reduce its debt load, Wall Street responded with boos. But an even more widespread reaction was a baffled "Huh?" In an arrangement called a rights offering, the entertainment and information firm, the parent company of TIME, said it hoped to raise as much as $3.5 billion by selling current stockholders the rights to buy 34.5 million new shares. The price will depend on how many accept the offer...
...Dominican Republic, the poverty-stricken nation famous for two cash crops: sugarcane and big- & league shortstops. Klein depicts the Dominican "academies," where teenage prospects are recruited, trained and evaluated by major-league clubs, as "the baseball counterpart of the colonial outpost, the physical embodiment overseas of the parent franchise." Even though Klein's ire is sometimes ill-concealed and the book actually contains a section called "Baseball and Symbolic Analysis," Sugarball serves as a reminder of the true meaning of the baseball term farm system...
...Plums, who had read about transplant surgeries using lobes of the lung from living donors, decided to volunteer. Alyssa successfully received a piece of Roger's lung. Then her other lung failed. Less than four weeks later, Cindy underwent the procedure. This time Alyssa died of heart failure. Both parents have 18-in. scars that run from their chest to their back. Cindy's sleep is still interrupted by pain. Roger suffers from muscle weakness. Even though the couple have a son, Travis, 6, who risked losing a parent, they never had doubts about their actions. "If I didn...
...poll also reveals other inequlities between the Harvard and Radcliffe classes of '66. While becoming a parent interrupted half of the Radcliffe class's employment, it only interupted two percent of the Harvard class's employment...
...parents of non-Catholic students, who account for about 12% of enrollment, seem less worried about the religious instruction their children may absorb than about the absence of values in the public system. This parental acceptance is largely the result of the self-selecting nature of parochial schools. Catholic administrators make it clear in advance that their institutions teach the tenets of the church. Parents comfortable with that arrangement are free to apply. "I'm not Catholic, but we're all serving the same God," says Betty Pitts, a black parent of two children in Our Lady of Lourdes elementary...