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Boyer's success is a result of brains and foresight, plus a strong independent streak. In 1976, after the first flush of public excitement about gene splicing, Boyer got an unexpected telephone call from Robert Swanson, a young venture capitalist. Swanson wanted to discuss the commercial possibilities of the new science, and many scientists might have kept him at arm's length. Boyer invited Swanson to his lab for a chat but told him he could only spare 20 minutes. The two hit it off so well they went on talking over beers at a local...
...past few years Hollywood's 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. has been under siege. The place has borne an uncanny resemblance to the rebel outpost attacked by Darth Vader's forces in The Empire Strikes Back, one of Fox's biggest box office smashes. Flush with profits from that film, Star Wars, Alien and other blockbusters, the studio has been pursued by a flock of acquisition-minded outsiders, most notably Chris-Craft Industries, which holds 22% of Fox's stock. But the winner in the Fox hunt may be a new entry: Denver Oilman Marvin Davis...
...Each flush is one quart...
...Reagan's Californians should be flush with cash if they sell their old homes in the red-hot property market of Southern California. They are not moaning so much about price as about the lack of lawns and swimming pools. Says one Republican with a home in Pacific Palisades, Calif.: "Maybe we pay more where we come from, but we get a lot more yard...
...silent, as if they're in an ice-cold grave. There have been no bear tracks for 20 days. God and Lady Nature have whispered in their ears and they're in absolute hibernation. My prayer is for snowflakes aplenty and rain in abundance. All these flush toilets man has created gobble up the water. To find a decent spring a digger must go down 100 feet in the valleys. Nature is telling us that man's abuse is killing the environment." Others will no doubt draw different lessons. But in a week of Inauguration...