Word: belled
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...African river blindness. Although no definitive studies on resistant strains of head lice have been completed in the U.S. (results of a Harvard investigation won't be ready for several months), two recent papers from Israel and the Czech Republic seem to support the resistant-strain theory. Says Thomas Bell, health officer for three counties in Washington State: "How do you induce resistance among a population of insects, bacteria or whatever? You expose the population to a sublethal dose of the chemical you're trying to kill them with, and that way you select for the strongest...
Asia In Severe Tailspin Markets across Asia continued to hemorrhage money Monday. But on Wall Street, the effects were temporary; a 137-point Dow tumble at the morning bell turned to a moderate gain by afternoon closing. Keep up with the numbers...
Business Bytes What earnings worries? Intel beat the odds--and Street expectations--with a very rosy report, post-bell. It's up in after-hours trading. And the Dow cruised along all day Tuesday to end 84 points to the good. All that and more in the FORTUNE Business report. Check the numbers by index or stock-by-stock
Bono was the straight man on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" in the early '70s, hangdog with his droopy mustache and bell-bottoms, dwarfed by his barb-tongued wife. As a songwriter, he wrote "Needles and Pins," "The Beat Goes On" and "I Got You, Babe." He was elected mayor of Palm Springs six years after his show went off the year. And six years after that he was elected congressman, swept into office by the Republican revolution, by a decent record as mayor and probably by a good dose of nostalgia for those innocent days before disco...
...bids on the property, which includes a sauna, a fitness room and tennis courts; even though the owner paid $30,000 to "sanitize" the house, no bid has yet come close to the mansion's pre-suicide value--about $1.5 million. The real estate agent handling the sale, Randall Bell, is an expert at moving "distressed" properties, having previously consulted, he says, on the sales of homes where Nicole Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey and Sharon Tate passed away, as it were. Not afraid to confront his chief marketing obstacle head on, Bell has renamed the property the Heaven's Gate Mansion...