Word: hesse
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DIED. ORVAN W. HESS, 96, pioneering obstetrician and gynecologist; in New Haven, Conn. In 1942 Orvan injected a human patient with penicillin in a last-ditch effort to save her and became the first doctor in clinical practice to use the antibiotic successfully. Fifteen years later, he developed the first fetal-heart monitor. Today versions are used in delivery rooms worldwide...
...blind spots of the American corporate structure are penetrating, yet he is surprisingly optimistic and even humorous at times. We desperately need leaders like Nader--truly in touch with the fundamental realities that are shaping our lives and our world--and courageous enough to speak up strongly. SCOTT HESS Petaluma, Calif...
...values are in natural gas (where Buffett has been buying). Typically, gas-company P/Es are slightly above the S&P multiple. Today the group trades at a 50% discount, Manley notes. Big oil companies don't look cheap, but domestic producers are trading below the market average, including Amerada Hess. Electric utilities are best valued by their dividend yields. Secure yields of 4% to 6%--as with FPL and Public Services Enterprises--are out there...
Signs There's something spooky in the field next to the farmhouse where Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) lives with his two kids (Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin) and his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix): gigantic crop circles. Are they an elaborate prank or the harbinger of an alien race's intervention? Given M. Night Shyamalan's earlier hits (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), you can forget prank. The writer-director wants you to believe in signs, from beyond the grave or the solar system, from the Bible or a good man's troubled heart - for Graham is still in mourning...
...Wahlberg promptly allowed a leadoff homer to light-hitting Fernando Perez. Wahlberg walked the next batter he faced, hit second baseman Billy Hess and give up a two-run double to Matt Buckmiller before Walsh pulled him in favor of sophomore Jason Brown. Brown was only able to get the Crimson out of the inning after two more runs on a triple by Derek Johnson and a Keith Palmieri sacrifice fly to put the game out of reach...