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...Tribute to Miles Davis--traditional and contemporary jazz led by Walter Beasley. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave., Boston. Thursday, Feb. 20. $4; $1 for seniors...
Junior Corey Jackson (8 p.p.g., 4 r.p.g.) atforward and senior Corey Beasley (7 p.p.g., 12r.p.g.) at center join Curely in the startingfrontcourt. Jackson has the distinction ofconnecting on 11 of 28 foul shots...
...their most lucrative projects in recent years, a $150 million contract to build four turbine generators for a power station at Al Shemal, 240 miles north of Baghdad. Playing its small part in the worldwide sanctions against Iraq, the firm has announced layoffs of 650 workers. Near Beasley, Texas, Jack Wendt, who farms 1,500 acres of rice and grain, calculates that he will earn $72,000 less than in 1989 because of the sudden disappearance of the U.S. rice industry's best customer, Iraq. In Paris, Airbus Industrie has put on hold a deal to sell five A310 wide...
Police work is full of occupational hazards. But canine cops working the drug beat face a special risk: getting high, and sometimes fatally intoxicated, on the stashes they are trained to sniff out. Veterinarian Val Beasley of the University of Illinois reports that his office receives about six calls a year concerning overdosed police dogs. "They don't eat the drugs because they like them," he explains. "In the excitement of the chase, they inadvertently inhale or swallow them when they pick up the objects in their mouths...
Because the caches nosed out by doggy detectives may be uncut and especially potent, even small ingestions can be extremely dangerous, sometimes causing death on the spot. An article that Beasley and a colleague published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association recommends, among other things, that police carry artificial resuscitation devices for their four- footed friends and a supply of activated charcoal that the dogs can swallow in solution to absorb most drugs before digestion. Because dogs, unlike their masters, just...