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Lobo was working at a biomedical laboratory in her native Maryland when she decided in 1976 that she could make more money by using her scientific background in a business career. After earning an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago, she was recruited by Ohio's Standard Oil to help found Vista Ventures, a venture capital firm with headquarters in New Canaan, Conn. She helped finance the Liposome Co., an enterprise specializing in the production of small membranes used to assist in administering medications and one of the biotechnology industry's hottest success stories. One of Lobo's current favored...
Wardenburg flipped in 32 goals and recorded six assists to finish third on the team in scoring. She was named first-team All-Ivy and second-team All-America. And in early April, she led her team to an 8-7 triumph over Maryland, the eventual NCAA champion...
...basic set-up was such that women were second-class citizens," says Maryland resident Shelley Pallay Levi '61. At that time, Radcliffe students lived in dormitories with house mothers while their tutors lived in the Harvard houses with the male undergraduates. "Not having the tutors around made a difference in the intellectual quality of our lives," says Levi, now a travel consultant in the Washington, D.C. area...
Consumer complaints about the high cost of health care have produced results in Maryland. This summer the state attorney general's office will issue a free guide to help people save money on medical treatment. The booklet, the first of its kind in the U.S., will list the names of about 13,000 Maryland doctors and health professionals and how much they charge for services, especially office visits, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures. Shoppers will find that costs can vary greatly. For example, an appendectomy performed in Baltimore could range from $800 to $1,000. But that fee drops...
Many members of Congress are strong defenders of the agency and are furious with the way it is being attacked. "Heatherly's actions were just unconscionable," says Representative Parren Mitchell, a Maryland Democrat who is chairman of the House Small Business Committee. Lowell Weicker, a Connecticut Republican and the head of a similar committee in the Senate, has called for a hearing with the acting SBA chief. But Heatherly remains undaunted. Says he facetiously: "If that was controversial, I can't wait for the reaction to some other things I have planned down the road...