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Company officials say they do not expect the new cafe, which is located at the intersection of Mt. Auburn St. and Mass Ave, to drain business away from the old one, which is only a few blocks away...
More than Arab pressure, however, may be riling Gorbachev. Seventy percent of the work force of the departing Jews are professionals and technicians. "The brain-drain issue is really worrying the Soviet legislature," says a U.S. diplomat based in Moscow. Perhaps for that reason, the Soviet parliament last week postponed until September adoption of a new emigration law that would permit almost all Jews to leave the country. But even with the remaining restrictions, Israel is enjoying a windfall from Moscow's brain drain. The newcomers offer expertise in fields ranging from medicine and engineering to computer technology and nuclear...
Since the early 1980s, doctors have operated on fetuses, fixing urinary- tract blockages, for example, or inserting needles to drain excess fluid from the brain. But never before had physicians successfully performed such major surgery in the womb. Harrison hopes that his technique can be used to correct other potentially fatal problems, including large lung or spinal tumors and certain heart conditions. Several experts echoed that optimism. "We're in a whole new era of fetal treatment," said Dr. Eugene Pergament, head of reproductive genetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...
Thus one man spent $160.6 million for a brace of paintings, sending the top end of the market from obscenity into farce; and the drain of America's cultural patrimony continued, watched by hamstrung museums that were now selling, not buying. New York's Guggenheim Museum sold a 1914 Kandinsky for $20.9 million and a fine early Chagall for $14.85 million. Long may the museum's public rejoice in the American minimal and conceptual art -- bricks on the floor, words on paper and the like -- that it plans to buy with the proceeds...
Whatever the subject matter, heavy metal unequivocally adds up to a high-voltage rock 'n roll experience. This means that getting the most out of metal can result in a sapping of one's energy, a physical and emotional drain from which it may take days to recover...