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DIED. CORY ERVING, 19, son of basketball legend Julius ("Dr. J") Erving; in Sanford, Fla. Missing since May 28, he was found in his car at the bottom of a pond less than a mile from home. The cause of death was not immediately determined...
...question we still need to resolve," muses neurogeneticist John Hardy of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., "is, What is the relationship between beta amyloid and tau?" That is why Hardy and others are so excited by the new strain of transgenic mice that scientists are breeding. By crossing mice that develop tangles with mice that develop plaques, they should finally be able to provide scientists with a research tool they've sorely lacked: lab animals that closely approximate the disease in humans...
Plaintiffs' lawyers retort that they are the only force in public life today that can be counted on to stand up for everyday Americans. "We're the last bastion," says Pensacola, Fla., trial lawyer Fred Levin, a key player in his state's tobacco litigation. "We're the last fighters available for the little guy." They say they've been on the right side of the big issues for decades, from getting air bags in cars to limiting tobacco companies' advertising to minors to forcing gun companies to install trigger locks...
...prescription-drug issue 30. Inkster, who repeated as LPGA champion 33. Oysters' homes 37. Cinders of old comics 39. Mork's sign-off, when doubled 41. James __ Garfield 43. Slaughter in baseball 45. __ White (IBM's new supercomputer) 46. Kind of graft 47. Kit Carson's home 48. __-Locka, Fla. 49. Masters and Johnson subject 51. Medical specialty (abbr.) 52. Royal-jelly maker...
...could it have happened? The answer, in part, may be that kids' leagues have become tinderboxes for parental rage. Among recent incidents: last month, at a baseball game in Hollywood, Fla., a parent-coach allegedly punched an umpire and faces battery charges. In March a Staten Island, N.Y., dad was indicted for allegedly breaking the nose of his son's coach with a hockey stick. "We've seen a definite increase in violence," says Bob Still of the National Association of Sports Officials in Racine, Wis. "We hear of two or three cases a week; most aren't reported...