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...LEON JAROFF has covered science and medicine since the 1950s for both TIME and LIFE magazines, so he is well aware of the problem of prostate cancer. But it wasn't until a friend developed the malignancy and he started to research the disease in depth that Jaroff learned it is reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. To help prepare for this week's cover, he traveled to Santa Monica, California, for a three-hour interview with former junk-bond wizard Michael Milken, whose disease was diagnosed in 1993 and who has pledged $25 million for prostate-cancer research...
...breakthrough solution to the long-running budget crisis that would provide funding for federal programs through the end of the 1996 fiscal year. The final obstacles fell as the Senate proposed a $1.3 billion dollar contingency fund for federal programs particularly important to the White House. Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said on CNN Sunday that the Administration would accept such a proprosal. The Senate and House will meet in conference this week to work out the details on how to provide more than $160 billion to fund the nine Cabinet Departments and numerous other federal agencies. The long-awaited...
...enthusiast ... with the pioneer's contempt for cant and aestheticism." Moreover, he was genuinely interested in the young, and was to inspire several generations of students--not only his younger contemporaries like Sloan and Bellows, but Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis, the Dadaist Man Ray and, strange to say, Leon Trotsky, who briefly studied art at the Ferrer School in New York when Henri was teaching there...
...Institute for Afro-American Research. One of the most distinguished and insightful sociologists in the country, Wilson is another outstanding addition to Harvard's intellectual Afro-American Studies all-star team, which already includes prominent scholars such as Cornel West '74, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Orlando Patterson, Judge A. Leon and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Jamaica Kincaid...
...first, he remained calm, joking with his captors that "you're going to be hearing from me." But by the time Garcia Abrego reached the capital, President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon had already decided against keeping him in Mexico. Instead, the President ordered him hustled onto a jet and flown to the U.S., where he is wanted on 20 charges, including drug trafficking, money laundering and murder, and is featured on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list. (He is the first international drug dealer ever to make that dishonor roll.) When he realized where he was headed, Garcia...