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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commissioned by the National Organization for Women debuted this week. Its message: EQUALITY FOR WOMEN. Message!Check is the creation of Priscilla Fenton, 38, a former Seattle Symphony fund raiser, and Amy Larkin, 31, who once produced financial reports on Wall Street. They have received orders for 3,000 batches, containing 200 checks each, for which they charge $14, or about twice what standard checks cost. For each batch of checks sold, Message!Check sends $1 to the group that supplied the slogan. Says Fenton: "Our goal is not just to make a dollar but to make a difference...
...local faves opened for the Gurus, Dumptruck and the Turbines, whose contrast was a good reminder that there are some great and there are some terrible bands bouncing around this town. Where the Turbines put on a loud and boring batch of noise-rock sounding more like an amplified construction site than a musical ensemble, Dumptruck cruised through a complex and melodic set that, with a bit more stage polish, could have even upset the headline...
...president of programming at Showtime. "We have to have more than just a few good movies to make subscribing worthwhile." < Showtime hopes to attract and hold subscribers with such regular items as Brothers, about a homosexual and his two siblings; the long-running drama The Paper Chase; and a batch of "rediscovered" episodes of The Honeymooners. HBO, while downplaying the importance of series, this season will offer six new segments of Philip Marlowe--Private Eye, starring Powers Boothe, along with the new episodes of such returning series as Not Necessarily the News and The Hitchhiker...
Other thefts in the past week included four stolen bikes worth between $150 and $250 each a batch of stolen wallets and purses, including one that contained $850, and $450 worth of clothing stolen from a Holworthy Hall clothes dryer...
...latest batch of DNA markers will serve as important stepping-stones to the isolation of genes. But RFLPs can only approximate the gene's position; biologists must progressively snip away the intervening fragments before they can fish out the gene and begin manipulating it. At least one marker, however, may be immediately useful. John Baxter of California Biotechnology, the firm where the heart-disease markers were found, believes the RFLP could help in alerting people to their tendency in time to change their behavior. Warns Baxter: "If you have this marker, it's equivalent to having blood pressure...