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...brain and slowly release an antitumor drug for cancer victims. The day is not far off when most diabetics will be able to give themselves insulin with a nasal spray. In California doctors are working on drug-loaded bubbles of fat that bind themselves to diseased cells. Says Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer at M.I.T.: "It's an explosive field with enormous potential...
This week the U.S. will try to regain the Ryder Cup it lost two years ago at the Belfry Club in England to Spain's Seve Ballesteros and Germany's Bernhard Langer, the foremost golfers in the world. This time Captain Jack Nicklaus is optimistic about the Yanks' chances. Australian Greg Norman is neutral, and the site, Nicklaus' own Muirfield Village course in Ohio, is particularly unfamiliar to the foreign players. The annual Memorial Tournament there regularly conflicts with the British P.G.A...
...that time the field could be overcrowded. Although the number of Western commercial satellite launches -- about 25 a year before the shuttle accident -- is expected to return to that level by 1992, the number of competitors who are eager to launch them is growing rapidly. Observes Morton Langer, who follows aerospace companies for the investment firm Bear, Sterns: "The fundamental question facing the commercial launchers is whether there will be enough satellite launches to support all the companies that have entered the business. Right now there is more romance than answers...
...funny category between residential and commercial because we don't really sell anything or do anything except use the clubhouse, so it's a little hard to take the full commercial assessment," said John B. Langer '72 a member of the club's alumni board...
FOOTNOTE: *The other five: Indiana's Warren McCray (1923) and Ed Jackson (1927); North Dakota's William Langer (1934); Maryland's Marvin Mandel (1975); West Virginia's Arch Moore...