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Legendary athletes are honored when their number is retired with them. Just ask Dave ("Spuds") Bresnahan, the never-to-be-forgotten second-string catcher for the Williamsport (Pa.) Bills, a class AA team. His immortal feat on the diamond last year prompted 2,700 of his fans to gather at Bowman Field last week to pay him a belated tribute and to paint his number, 59, on the outfield fence...
...Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, which today includes such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, Nobel Laureate Physicist Murray Gell-Mann and Psychologist B.F. Skinner. As CSICOP's point man, Randi sought out TV producers and editors and demonstrated that he could duplicate Geller's feats simply by using distraction and sleight of hand. Geller soon came a cropper. During a disastrous 22-minute appearance on the Tonight show, he failed to perform a single feat; Carson's staff, consulting with Randi, had set up safeguards against cheating...
...fact, what has already been achieved is nothing less than a major breakthrough -- an important and promising feat in its own right, and all the more extraordinary against the history of the relationship. As recently as 1984, the arms-control process had collapsed. Washington and Moscow were barely speaking. Now the main provisions of an unprecedented treaty that would significantly reduce the largest, most powerful and most dangerous weapons on earth -- intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) -- have been committed to paper...
...seat tent in New York City this week as part of a North American tour that has made it something of a cult attraction. And Lacombe is his star clown, who does a socko act conducting the 1812 Overture in ski boots while strapped to a trampoline -- a feat that must be seen to be understood...
Some of the immune system's biggest battles are directed not against harmful intruders but against potentially life-saving organ transplants. New hearts and kidneys in adults have become fairly commonplace, and top surgeons have even attempted the daunting feat of transplanting multiple abdominal organs into infants and toddlers. Today's organ recipients are indebted to a drug called cyclosporine, which has revolutionized transplantation technology in the past decade. Unlike immunological treatments for AIDS and cancer, cyclosporine works by temporarily suppressing the body's natural defenses, thus preventing the rejection of grafted tissue...