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...most explosive trend in golf clubs? Hybrids--those half wood, half irons. Their larger, woodlike club faces make two- and three-iron approach shots far easier to hit. This season's hot hybrid newcomers: the Nickent Genex ($129) and Sonartec MD...
...town last November would have some difficulty doing that," says White House spokesman Trent Duffy. Those barred from the trip include employees of Qualcomm and Nokia, two of the largest telecom firms operating in the U.S., as well as Ibiquity, a digital-radio-technology company in Columbia, Md. One nixed participant, who has been to many of these telecom meetings and who wants to remain anonymous, gave just $250 to the Democratic Party. Says Nokia vice president Bill Plummer: "We do not view sending experts to international meetings on telecom issues to be a partisan matter. We would welcome clarification...
...that a French team led by Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris first published evidence of a new virus that appeared to play a role in the disease. The following spring, Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he had conclusively identified the AIDS virus and produced it in large quantities. At a press conference that many scientists felt undercut the important contribution of the French, Heckler hailed Gallo's achievement: "Today we add another miracle to the long honor roll of American medicine and science." Her fulsome statement added fuel...
...number of those involved in many natural disasters. Yet for radon victims, the Government provides no relief. Combatting radon by sealing walls and floors is not necessarily effective after a building is constructed. A better method is ventilating the soil around the home. Lester A. Slaback Jr. Gaithersburg, Md...
That was the conclusion of an eight-year, $9 million study reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. The study, financed by the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), in Bethesda, Md., involved 1,377 patients at 71 leading medical centers in such cities as Budapest, Kyoto and Cleveland. Each of the subjects had experienced either a minor stroke or warning signals known as transient ischemic attacks. Such attacks, which may result in dizzy spells, temporary loss of vision or speech, or numbness in a hand or limb, signal that arteries supplying various...