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...role breast feeding plays in optimizing a baby's brain power. Mother's milk contains important building blocks not found in any domestic infant formula. Babies breast fed just one month have an 8-point IQ advantage as kindergartners, and that figure rises with extended breast feeding. LAURA HAYNES COLLECTOR The Breast-Feeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles Irwindale, California
...painted by the penniless artist just days before his suicide on July 27, 1890, the work was estimated at $40 million in the late 1980s. But in 1989 the French government declared it a "national monument" and forbade its exportation, thus torpedoing its worth on the international art market. Collector Jacques Walter auctioned it off to banker Jean-Marc Vernes for $11 million in 1992; he then sued the French government for "spoliating" its value, and, incredibly, Walter won $29 million in compensation. After Vernes died last spring, his widow put the picture up for sale...
BORN: Feb. 14, 1945, Beaumont EDUCATION: Lamar U, B.S., 1968, M.Ed., 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Susan Floyd; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher; tax assessor-collector POLITICAL CAREER: Chairman, Jefferson County Democratic Party, 1972-74; Tax assessor-collector, Jefferson County, 1977-95 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 21578, Beaumont...
...antique-book collector who has served in the state Senate since 1987, Coffin showed his independent streak by casting one of the few votes against a proposed 300% pension increase for state legislators in 1989. Though the 1990 redistricting should have helped Democrats, Coffin has lagged far behind Republican incumbent John Ensign in fund raising...
Every presidential campaign begins long before the first primary votes are cast. The early maneuvering constitutes an invisible primary all its own. Money is raised, operatives are employed, momentum is gained--or isn't. For Dole, Gingrich's endorsement mattered most. "Newt had called Dole the tax collector of the welfare state," said Scott Reed, who was Dole's campaign manager. "Not only was [Gingrich] noodling about running for President himself, but he had the power back in '94 to diss Dole and end his chances. To win the nomination, we had to get well with him first...