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...first time ever. It was quite a coup for Fred Silverman, ABC'S programming chief, and in 1978 NBC, which had slipped to a gentleman's third place in the ratings, hired him as network president. By 1981 Silverman had pulled off an even more spectacular feat. He had demonstrated that with enough hard work, even a TV network could lose money. In his three years, NBC's earnings plunged from $51 million in profits to a $40 million loss...
...bountiful when compared with those in the U.S.S.R., yet many citizens feel that the Czechoslovak Communist Party has broken its pledge by failing to ensure stable prices and no shortages. The popular response, so far at least, is to cheat a bit more, which could be an extraordinary feat in this economy. The Czechs were once famous throughout Europe for their strict orderliness and scrupulous honesty, but that reputation is now tarnished. Everyone cuts a corner here, steals something there. Lubomir, for example, is a 34-year-old boiler repairman in the city of Brno. His monthly salary...
Rival swam the 2900 yards, the total distance for the 13 individual swimming events, in 32 minutes and 20 seconds, just 15 seconds short of Zimic's record time for the feat. "It's a lot harder psychologically than physically." Rival said, noting that she has swum that far in practice but never had to prepare herself for 13 individual events, one after the other...
While the Technology Transfer body belongs to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the guidelines have been disseminated to all of Harvard's faculties which are now in various stages of discussing the rules in the hope of gaining a University wide consensus a rare feat considering the different needs and desires of various disciplines...
...from one species, genetically transfer it to another species, and voilá!: a hybrid emerges that nature could never have produced. In last week's issue of the British journal Nature, scientists at four American institutions announced that they had actually accomplished this remarkable, first-of-its-kind feat. A gene carrying the DNA code for growth hormone was taken from rats and incorporated into mouse embryos. The result: mice that grew to be nearly twice the normal size. The super-mice not only produced large quantities of rat growth hormone in their bodies, but in some cases even...