Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leelee Groome: Who says all excitement happens on the offensive end? Groome, a senior sweeper on the field hockey team, makes playing defense as thrilling--and dangerous--as parachuting with an umbrella. If the ball is heading toward the Harvard goal, you can bet Groome will be charging after it. And if she gets a hold of the ball with her stick, beware. It will either go a mile on the ground, or fly into the air in wicked line-drive fashion, daring an opposing forward to stand...
...remaining independent publishing houses, as an editor. "Roger Straus and I hope to work out an arrangement such as the one described," Shawn says. "I have agreed to edit three or four books on an informal, friendly basis." Does Straus believe he has pulled off a publishing coup? "You bet I do," he says, adding that he would like Shawn to stay on "as long as he is happy. May it be a thousand years...
...Rochester Neurobiologist John Sladek and Yale Psychiatrist Eugene Redmond see a braver new world ahead. The two scientists reported reversing the effects of Parkinson's in adult African green monkeys by implanting cells from the substantia nigra of monkey fetuses, and believe that fetal brain grafts offer a better bet for Parkinson's patients. Vanderbilt researchers, using fetal nerve-tissue implants in experiments with rats, also reported progress in reducing chemically induced symptoms of Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic brain disorder. Others expressed hope that once the underlying causes of Alzheimer's disease are determined, it too might...
...snapper (as in turtle) soup became a trademark. There are two Bookbinders: the Old Original, in its historic 1865 setting, and Bookbinders 15th Street, owned by the founding family. Alas, neither has much to recommend it, but for those with a taste for tradition, the latter is the better bet...
...cabins. Montana-based Alpine Log Homes, which has supplied handcrafted, custom-made log structures to U.S. national parks and forests for half a century, has agreed to sell $3 million worth of its products to a Japanese architectural firm, mainly for use in recreational areas. The bet is that Japanese vacationers, weary of crowded cities and suburbs, will enjoy a bit of Abe Lincoln-style living...