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Soon afterward, Health Net's Ossorio telephoned Glaspy's boss, Dr. Dennis Slamon, the division chief of oncology at UCLA, in what the deMeurerses say was an effort to influence whether the center would perform Christy's transplant. Health Net's Lyle Swallow disputes this charge: "The idea that Health Net could somehow muscle UCLA into doing anything, given their size, given their reputation, given their budget, is really kind of laughable...
Matsuguchi's misconduct was "intentional falsification of data in two autoradiographs prepared for a presentation and in altering a print of an immunoblot of a paper in the journal [of the European Molecular Biology Organization]," according to Lyle W. Bivens, the director of the NIH Office of Research Integrity...
Given so broad a range of distortions, his life presents a towering challenge to any biographer. Lyle Leverich, whom Williams chose as his official biographer before his death in 1983, has done a commendable job of combining skepticism and sleuthing. With gentleness and insight, he corrects many of the claims Williams set forth in his lively but unreliable memoirs. (Williams was especially prone to minimize the floundering and guilt of his early sexual encounters.) Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams (Crown; 644 pages; $35) is the first installment of what will be a two-volume portrait. It tracks Williams from...
Society's sense of right and wrong has become so distorted that a 14-year-old South African runner tested postive twice for steroid use and was suspended from competition for four years. You can add to the South African case the names of Ben Johnson, Brian Bosworth, Lyle Alzado and Katrin Krabbe, and the picture only becomes more disturbing. The carelessness of risking one's long-term health for short-term gain and the cunning used to avoid detection are not behaviors to be emulated...
...high-publicity murder trials opened, and without the glare of courtroom television coverage. In Los Angeles prosecutors began their retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez on charges of having murdered their parents; the prior prosecution of the brothers, who claim they were driven to kill by years of sexual abuse, ended in hung juries. In Houston, Yolanda Saldivar went on trial for the murder of Tejano singing star Selena. The former president of Selena's fan club, Saldivar claims the shooting was an accident...