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DIED. EILEEN HECKART, 82, animated, gravelly-voiced actress known for her down-to-earth performances on stage, screen and television; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Widely known as Mary's savvy Aunt Flo on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Heckart got her break in Picnic on Broadway in 1953 and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as the overbearing mother in the 1972 film Butterflies Are Free. In 2000 she returned to the stage with an acclaimed performance as a woman dying of Alzheimer's in The Waverly Gallery...
...also hated for our technological superiority, our cities and skyscrapers, our constitutionally protected rights and our unprecedented standard of living. But if it's right to take pride in these achievements, then Americans, especially opinion makers like Morrow, need more arrogance, not less. KEVIN OSBORNE New Hartford, Conn...
CuraGen of New Haven, Conn., is one of the innovative firms that have refined this art. Its proprietary technology--an adaptation of a decade-old technique--allows CuraGen's scientists to put human genes into yeast cells and effectively "fish" for proteins relevant to drug discovery. "We learned at the seat of the inventor of this technology," boasts technology group leader Bruce Taillon, "and showed him what would happen when CuraGen was set loose on it." The company stunned the biotech world in January, when it announced a 15-year, $1.4 billion deal with Bayer to develop drugs against obesity...
ANTHRAX BREAK Investigators discovered anthrax on a letter at a Seymour, Conn., residence one mile from the Oxford home of Ottilie Lundgren, the 94-year-old woman who died two weeks ago of anthrax. CLUES The letter bore the same N.J. postmark as did those sent to Senators Daschle and Leahy in Washington, and the letters appear to have moved through the same sorting machine within seconds of one another. NEXT STEP Officials suggest that cross-contamination of mail could explain Lundgren's fatal infection and hope to find similarities between her case and that of the Bronx woman...
Indeed, the 6’1 Gellert—a guard who plays at small forward—came to Harvard from Newtown, Conn., as the point guard who would eventually replace star Tim Hill ’99. A top scholastic player in Connecticut, Gellert was the consummate athlete, starring also in baseball and one season of football, when he grabbed a state-record 17 interceptions. Guess he’s always gravitated towards defense...