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DIED. Dennis Stone, 52, prominent epidemiologist who co-wrote the definitive study of the links between fetal deformities and drugs used by pregnant women; of a brain tumor; in Lexington, Mass. Slone's 1977 Birth Defects and Drugs in Pregnancy concluded that the most commonly used painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills involve little risk to fetuses. Last year, however, his team reported that women who used oral contraceptives for a long time doubled or tripled their chances of having a heart attack...
DIED. Del Carroll, 62, Keeneland race track's winningest trainer, whose horses won $19 million and 2,115 victories during his 32-year career; of head injuries in a riding accident at Keeneland; in Lexington, Ky. His most famous Thoroughbred was Bee Bee Bee, who took the 1972 Preakness and broke up Riva Ridge's bid for the Triple Crown...
Peter and Franny Martin, the Boston butchers who own Timely Writer, tried not to be too sad. In a bright show of horsemanship, the brothers attended all of the Derby functions in Louisville between commutes to Lexington to visit their recuperating pet. At each expression of condolence, Peter Martin would say, "I'm a realist. The road to the roses is strewn with broken hearts." One inconsolable woman replied, "But I'm a dreamer." "Ah, there's your problem," he told her gently. "Dreamers get hurt...
...machines to go around. Says Alpena Elementary School Principal Burt Wright: "I've got high school kids begging to come in after school and use our machine." The truly addicted-known half scornfully, half admiringly as computer nerds-may drop out almost entirely from the everyday world. In Lexington, Mass., one legendary 16-year-old nerd got so deeply immersed in computers that he talked to no one, headed straight to his terminal after school and barely sat down for meals. The only way his father could get him away from the terminal was to go down...
Many of the wonder-drug companies, though, are not finding easy profits in their test tubes. In February, Bethesda Research Laboratories, of Gaithersburg, Md., laid off 180 of its 460 employees and canceled many of its long-term research projects. Also in February, Collaborative Research Inc., of Lexington, Mass., was forced to cut the price on its initial stock offering from the $17 it had hoped for to $11. In late March, Southern Biotech Inc., of Tampa, temporarily did not pay some management salaries and reduced research projects because it was running low on cash...