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Will the diet-crazed country that embraced artificial sweeteners now accept phony fats? Some of America's biggest food firms are betting heavily on it. The latest entrant is A.E. Staley Manufacturing of Decatur, Ill., which last week served up Stellar, a product derived from corn. At a promotional buffet of Stellar-based margarine and cheese spreads, Staley said the reduced-calorie faux fat will be available early next year to food producers, who can use it to replace from 60% to 100% of the fat in such items as salad dressing, baked goods, meat products, soups, gravies and sauces...
QUICK, THE RAID. Everyone knows that the computer industry is fighting against viruses, malicious programs that can infect whole networks and crash them. So it stands to perverse reason that hush-hush agencies like the CIA and NSA are trying to create such bugs as offensive weapons. The latest entrant in this quest is the U.S. Army, which is soliciting bids on a half-million dollar contract to develop tactical virus weapons capable of disabling enemy computers on the battlefield. The proposal has raised eyebrows among the military's hackers. Says one Army computer-security officer: "Many of my colleagues...
...Conant swells the G.O.P. field to six. She is a former Evanista who pushed the legalization of Laetrile, the crackpot cancer cure, and secured a letter from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a fellow Arizonan) erroneously citing legal precedents for the Christian-nation resolution. The most recent entrant is ex-Congressman Sam Steiger, a rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and now electronic-equipment entrepreneur. He was convicted of extortion when he was an aide to Mecham, but it was overturned...
...very competitive group of athletes qualifying for the finals. In the open collegiate division, Kristi Stoddard and Cecile Ulbrich qualified with 2500 meter times of 9.01.6 and 9.05.5 in their respective heats. Stoddard rowed a time of 8.53 to finish second in the final only to a Canadian entrant, placing her at the top of all U.S. collegiate women on the ergometer. Light-weight Aoibheann Sweeney's heat time of 9.33.5 qualified her for the world lightweight final competition, in which she came in sixth, with a time of 9.31. Our lightweight coach Holly Metcalf won the Masters world championship...
Harvard's only other entrant in the singles draw, sophomore Jen Minkus, lost in the first round to Princeton's top player, Diana Gardner...