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CADILLAC MAN Directed by Roger Donaldson; Screenplay by Ken Friedman...
Mathematician Thomas Donaldson, 46, of Sunnyvale, Calif., believes that science will eventually make immortality possible, and he wants in on it. Last week he asked a state court judge to permit a seven-person team to freeze him, then sever his frozen head and store it. Someday, he figures, science will provide a cure for the cancer that afflicts him. Then, if doctors can master the art of brain transplantation, Donaldson's noggin could be thawed out and his brain implanted in another body. At $35,000, freezing a head is a good deal cheaper than...
...Donaldson's suit succeeds in barring interference by California officials, he could become the first living person to undergo the cryonic suspension process. "I am dying," says Donaldson, whose tumor has not responded to therapy. "I might later be revived and continue to live." Donaldson's lawyer thinks a judgment might come...
NOTEBOOK: The Crimson has suffered a rash of injuries in the last several weeks that could seriously affect them in their upcoming games. Harvard will be without freshman pitcher Christine Carr, who is out for the season due to an ankle injury. Also questionable are starting secondbaseman Rachel Donaldson (concussion) and pitcher Nancy Sparrow, who complained of pains in her right shoulder and was taken out in the second inning in the nightcap against Cornell on Saturday...The Crimson hosts Stonehill in a doubleheader at Soldiers Field on Tuesday before going on the road for a pair at Assumption College...
...plate came Co-Captain Beth Reilly, whose two hits in the first game accounted for half of the team's total. On the second pitch to the junior thirdbaseman, Donaldson took off for second and was gunned down by Hofstra catcher Beth Gaudet, eliminating the tying run from the basepaths...