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When Adolph Coors and Bernhard Stroh started their breweries more than a century ago, the beer industry was wide open and hundreds of small companies were able to compete. Today the top five brewers control 90% of the market and the industry is no longer so forgiving. Last week struggling Stroh agreed to sell most of its brewery operations to Coors for $425 million...
...dunking. Next season CBS takes over major-league baseball's broadcast rights (currently divided between NBC and ABC) but will deliver only twelve games, plus the play-offs and the World Series. That means Saturday-afternoon-at-the- ball-park broadcasts (begun on NBC in 1957) will no longer be a weekly freebie. Those sports fans who do not have cable now have another reason to get wired: ESPN will be filling in the gaps with some 175 games next season...
...Even more controversial is Moore's suspicion that lowering cholesterol does not increase one's odds for a longer life. In the major studies that have probed this issue, people with low cholesterol got heart disease less often than those with high levels. But, as Moore points out, the low-cholesterol people did not live longer on average, because some of them died from other ailments. Whether this was by chance or the result of low cholesterol remains an open question. That puzzling outcome does not overly impress most researchers. They feel that as additional, longer studies are completed...
...consequence of this policy has been that black children, who make up about 40% of the foster-child population, tend to spend much longer waiting for adoption than whites. Recently agencies have been quietly permitting more black children to go to white adoptive homes. They have also been mobilizing to recruit more potential black parents...
Performers have not been the only ones to be hurt by HRE's administration. For example, we learned at commencement last year that HRE would no longer allow student body-wide keg parties in the "Great Hall" part of the building. HRE's actions constitute a pattern which is incompatible with the managment of what should be an academic and extracurricular building...