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...years behind bars. But in the settlement, prosecutors dropped their most serious charges, including insider trading and racketeering, which carried a potential prison sentence of more than 500 years. Moreover, with a personal fortune estimated to be in excess of $1 billion, Milken is likely to retain a sizable nest egg. "Justice wasn't served," declares Albert Sindlinger, who runs a stock market-research firm catering to small investors. "Considering all the damage he did to stockholders, taxpayers and the public's confidence in the stock market, Milken is getting off easy...
...were delivered at dead of night by Mrs. Clement. "This is the best time to transport hens" apparently. Louis and I had been busy for a week putting up an escape proof fence (we hope) and turning one end of the play hut into a replica Hilton Hotel, roosts, nest boxes etc. So now we have the gentle chucking of hens and the occasional cackle when one or the other manages to lay an egg (eight today...
...sleep." Hopping helicopters carrying cargo to remote bases, Lemonick talked to dozens of biologists, geologists and other scientists. His most harrowing trip was a helicopter ride to the edge of an ice sheet 25 miles out in Ross Sound for a close look at the emperor penguins that nest there. "Before we landed, a crewman jumped out with a giant auger and drilled several feet to see if the sheet was thick enough to hold our weight," says Lemonick. "Even then, we had to walk very carefully, single file, watching for cracks...
...think that HGH therapy may be justified in cases of extreme shortness, they see a dangerous potential for abuse. Notes Dr. Myron Genel, professor of pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine: "The question of who should and who shouldn't get growth-hormone therapy is a hornet's nest. The criteria are no longer clear." Many parents have been pressuring doctors to try hormone therapy on children who are not abnormally short. One physician recalls a father who asked if his tall son could be made even taller so he would be sure to make the Notre Dame football...
...three years before Corazon Aquino rode a wave of national anger to become President of the Philippines, one of the country's most astute political observers made an eerily prescient assessment. "So she becomes the rallying point," he said. "Immediately, corruption will increase. Everybody will feather his nest. At that point, she will be nudged to the side and be made a scapegoat for the mess. Then the military will take over. They will say, 'Well, we've given you your chance.' But they will have made sure she would fail. They will then throw her to the people...