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...funds, also known as exchange funds, Wall Street has divined a way for some overly concentrated investors to trade one stock that has risen for a basket of stocks of equal value--avoiding any immediate capital-gains tax. A crush of financial firms, including Banker's Trust, Salomon Smith Barney, J.P. Morgan and Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette, are launching swap funds right now. They aren't entirely new. But Congress took a whack at limiting them two years ago, and they're resurfacing with a new look...
...Surgeons at the University of Utah Medical Center, led by William DeVries, replace Barney Clark's failing heart with a mechanical one designed by Robert Jarvik; Clark dies 112 days later...
...third season, which kicked off in late January, Roadshow (Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.) has become the top-rated weekly program on public television, overtaking Barney and such staples as This Old House and Nova. A knock-off of a long-running British show, it's being propelled by a booming interest in collectibles and Americana, from Beanie Babies to 18th century furniture, and the growth of the Internet, where surfers flock to online auction sites such as eBay and Auction Universe. In a nation full of junk keepers, Roadshow is sending its 10 million viewers rummaging through their attics...
Sometimes in the next few weeks, Reps Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Newton) and Thomas J. Campbell (R-Calif.) will introduce legislation to overturn a part of a federal law denying funding to law schools that prohibit military recruitment on campus because of the military's policy on gays...
Representatives Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Newton) and Thomas J. Campbell (R-Calif.) are preparing to introduce legislation that would repeal part of the "Solomon Amendment," which was passed last year and withholds federal funding from colleges and universities that bar military recruiters due to the military's discrimination against gays...