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...costing the industry more than $1 billion a year. Mounting product-liability claims, including asbestos and pollution damages, are running at $10 billion annually. Insurers are also still recovering from a decade's worth of bad investments in savings and loans, junk bonds and real estate. Says Roger Joslin, chairman of State Farm Fire & Casualty: "This traumatic period is unprecedented in the history of the insurance industry...
Senior Co-Captain Sandra Whyte was selected Player of the Year for the second straight season. She followed on the heels of former teammate Char Joslin who repeated as top Ivy player in 1990 after winning...
...most pressing task for the coaching staff will be replacing the seven key seniors, including four-time First Team All-Ivy selection and 1990's Player of the Year, All-America defender Maggie Vaughn. The Crimson will also be without the services of All-America attackers Julia French, Char Joslin and Karen Everling. The graduation of these veterans, most of whom were attack players, leaves the team particularly weak on offense. As a result, the lineup has been juggled to experiment with different players in different positions...
...nonfunctioning kidneys. Most important, insulin pumps and home-monitoring kits are enabling diabetics to control their blood-sugar levels more precisely than ever before. With good control, diabetic women, once cautioned not to have children, are now delivering healthy babies. Says Dr. Gordon Weir, medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center: "Patients are finally tuning in to the fact that high blood sugar is serious business...
...sign that an autoimmune attack has begun is the appearance in the bloodstream of antibodies to the pancreatic cells and, later, to insulin itself. For nine years a Joslin Center research team led by immunologist Dr. George Eisenbarth has been tracking the appearance of these antibodies in 10,000 close relatives of Type I diabetics. It is now possible for the Joslin team to predict which otherwise symptomless relatives are likely to develop the disease in three years' time. Last May the Joslin and two other medical centers launched a program to treat identified potential diabetics with an antirejection drug...