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...Auction fever crossed time zones faster than Air Force One. In Chicago Ralph Goldenberg, whose wife Helyn is a senior vice president of Sotheby's, spent $63,000 to buy J.F.K.'s putter, a Robot K-44, and gave it to his business partner, Christopher Heymeyer. The latter is now a minor celebrity at the Board of Trade, where the two work. "Everybody on the trading floor says, 'There's the guy; his partner bought him the putter.' There's a huge excitement," Heymeyer says. "Everybody on the trading floor says, 'Can I see it? Can I touch...
...Researchers find that 95% of kids who develop ALLERGIES TO NUTS--a potentially life-threatening problem--suffer from asthma, eczema or hay fever. They warn children with any of these problems to lay off peanut butter and other nutty foods...
Last week it happened again. The problem centered once more on a shipment of macaques sent by the same Philippine supplier. One monkey from the shipment was discovered last month with a raging fever and bloody diarrhea; three days later it was dead. The rest of the pack was quarantined, but the disease had already spread. After a second monkey turned up sick last week, authorities decided to destroy the monkeys housed in the same hut--49 animals...
Even scientists have developed a touch of comet fever. They have commandeered the world's most powerful telescopes, including the high-flying Hubble, to plumb the secrets of one of the most ancient objects orbiting the sun. Says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts: "It's the brightest one since 1976, and we're dropping everything to study...
...rally, featuring slogans such as "Legal immigrant under attack--what do we do? Stand up, fight back," though lyrically apt, did little to inform students about the nature of the controversy. But surprisingly, the rally managed to educate them in other ways. Passions ran high. A sort of synergistic fever that was greater than the sum of its parts had gripped each participant. I was personally surprised to see people, whom I know as being normally on the quiet side, start to wield their mastery of group dynamics and start chants...