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...Boston case concerned Joseph C. Palmer, of Newton, Mass., who smoked L& M cigarettes for 23 years. After he died of lung cancer in 1980 at age 64, Palmer's wife Ann and his mother jointly sued Liggett & Myers, charging that the company had failed to provide adequate warnings about the dangers of cigarette smoking. A U.S. district court judge ruled that the company could be held liable under Massachusetts state laws; that decision was overturned last week...
...dolphin-human communication experiment. It was a bust. The young dolphins, named Joe and Rosie after the late movie magnate Joseph E. Levine, who produced Day of the Dolphin (1973), and his wife Rosalie, attracted the attention of a parade of celebrities, including Phyllis Diller, Kris Kristofferson and Olivia Newton-John. Some notables even swam with the pair at Marine World/Africa USA in Redwood City, Calif...
...Isaac Newton was a supergenius of science who, among other things, invented calculus and deduced the laws of gravity and optics. Sir Isaac, it turns out, also made mistakes. The University of Chicago announced last week that Robert Garisto, 23, a physics major, recently discovered in one of Newton's calculations an error that had gone undetected for three centuries...
Garisto stumbled across the blunder while puzzling over some confusing numbers from Newton's 1687 masterpiece of physics, the Principia. Newton had derived a figure for the earth's mass based on his new theory that a single force -- gravity -- governed falling bodies on earth and the motion of planets around the sun. The calculation depended on the angle between two lines from the earth to the sun, but because the angle was not precisely known at the time, Newton used slightly different figures as he revised the Principia. Although he had settled on 10.5 sec., or about three-thousandths...
Stylishly dressed, hair perfectly coiffed and wearing the inevitable pearl earrings, Margaret Thatcher had dropped by for yet another of British election organizers' much loved photo opportunities. This time it was a famous motorcycle manufacturer in Newton Abbot, Devonshire. The Prime Minister, ever the lady, would not be pushed into providing a spectacle for the press. "I think that would be a bit gimmicky, don't you?" she declared, politely declining requests to sit on a motorcycle or even grip the handlebars. But Thatcher is not one to miss such an opportunity entirely, and almost coyly she allowed her fingers...