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...decade of multibillion-dollar takeovers, the world's last two international media conglomerates today announced that they would merge. BMCAA Viafox (created out of Bertelsmann, MCA, CAA, Viacom and Fox) agreed to accept a bid of $638 billion in cash and stock from Disony GETCITWest (formed from a fusion of Disney, Sony, GE, TCI, Time Warner and Westinghouse). The new entity, which now controls all entertainment on film, TV, CD, video, telephone and computer, will be called, simply, Diller...
...evolutionary change. Scientists now know, for example, that the genes that trigger the formation of hands and feet also control many other developmental processes in the posterior part of an animal -- among them, the addition of an anal opening to the digestive tract and, in four-legged creatures, the fusion of the lower vertebrae to make a pelvis. Isn't it curious, says Duboule, that fish lack a true pelvis as well as hands and feet? This suggests to him that both structures -- the appendages for walking and the bony apparatus that anchors them to the spine -- are linked...
DIED. AL HANSEN, 67, 1960s visual artist who pioneered the avant-garde fusion of multimedia, music, homemade movies and staged events known as "happenings"; of a heart attack; in Cologne, Germany...
...asked no questions about the confused policy that had him flying over Bosnia in the first place. When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity: the media, the public and the spinmeisters who manipulate them. In the case of Scott O'Grady, the three achieved nuclear fusion. The danger was that in the process, a likable, humble man could be consumed...
Astronomers have finally found what appears to be a brown dwarf, a long-sought heavenly object that until now has existed only in theory. Brown dwarfs are not quite big and hot enough to ignite the nuclear-fusion reaction that would make them shine as full-fledged stars. They probably account for some of the universe's "missing" matter...