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...Tuesday at the Manhattan offices of Morgan Stanley, one of the airline's investment bankers. Among the 17 directors present were Ferris, Olson, former Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps, Chairman Richard Cooley of Seattle's Seafirst banking company, and Charles Luce, former chairman of New York City's Consolidated Edison power company. The directors were ready for decisive action, and before the meeting had even started, Luce told Chairman Ferris that his job was on the line...
...larger mice, and firefly genes into tobacco plants, which then glow in the dark. Genetic engineering cannot, however, "cross" a cow with a frog to produce a new species. "The essence of a particular animal is something you don't change," explains Thomas Wagner, director of Ohio University's Edison Animal Biotechnology Center in Athens, Ohio. "A pig is a pig, and a cow is a cow. You merely enhance certain aspects...
...same time, some of Texaco's suppliers were refusing to do business, or setting tougher terms. According to the Texaco affidavit, Venezuela's state-owned oil companies had at least temporarily stopped pumping oil for Texaco. (Venezuela denies that it has cut Texaco off.) Southern California Edison started requiring Texaco, its largest customer, to pay its electric bill every week...
Students have so far largely ignored Carlson's efforts, leaving the booklets in piles by mail stations. Ironically, their younger brothers and sisters may be more enlightened. At Edison High School in New Jersey, some students use condoms as the status birth control of choice -- much the way teenagers in the '50s did. "Some youngsters are better able to deal with the realities than adults who came out of the '70s and who enjoyed freedom so long," says Gerri Abelson, coordinator of the AIDS curricula in New York City public schools...
After talking to the linesmen, Albert confirmed the goal--a move that defied the green lights at either end, the scoreboard which read 0:00, the goal judge whom he never consulted, the laws of physics, and all the hard work of Ben Franklin, Thomas Alva Edison and a lot of other people with more brains than one Mr. Ben Albert...