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RESIGNED. CARL MCCALL, 67, from the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) board, on which he served as chairman of the compensation committee; eight days after N.Y.S.E. chairman Richard Grasso stepped down following criticism of his excessive $140 million pay package; in New York City. McCall had publicly defended Grasso but was reportedly angered to learn of an additional $48 million due Grasso, despite having signed a new contract extension approving...
...Both the "Little Lit" and "Little Vampire" series make for smart introductions to reading comics. While "Little Lit" will appeal to early readers, the wit of "Little Vampire" will delight their slightly older siblings. Citing the Carl Bark's Donald Duck comics from the 1940s and 50s as "among the best stories for kids on paper," Spiegelman says Americans have lacked for comics you can re-read the way kids like to do. Hopefully these two series will provide the beginning a greater selection of kid's comics. "Kids, as we know, are ambi-tasterous," Spiegelman says. "They'll like...
...Earth [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 1] once again raised the question of whether there is life on the Red Planet. When the Soviet Union launched an unmanned probe to scout the Martian skies [July 18, 1988], we took the opportunity to remind readers that years ago, earlier space experts, including astronomer Carl Sagan, predicted that finding evidence of civilized life on Mars might be far more daunting than anyone had expected...
...kilometers, transmitting 22 television pictures of a bleak, moonlike landscape pockmarked by craters and showing no signs of life. Even so, hope persisted. To demonstrate that a Mariner flyby at a distance of thousands of miles might completely overlook a thriving civilization, a young and still unknown Carl Sagan that same year sifted through a thousand pictures of Earth shot by a weather satellite orbiting only 480 kilometers up. In a paper entitled Is There Life on Earth? he reported that only one photograph, of a snow-covered superhighway cutting a straight line through a forest, showed any evidence...
...Dust Won't Settle H. Carl McCall, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange's compensation committee, resigned following criticism of his public support for former NYSE chairman Richard Grasso's $140 million pay package...