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Anderson's research focuses on the effect of free radicals-fragments of molecules that are extremely reactive and can destroy ozone by converting it back into molecular oxygen-on the stratosphere...
...have been fortunate that former Astronaut Jack Swigert, 51, has once before survived the icy chill of near tragedy. On his 1970 Apollo 13 journey to the moon, an oxygen tank exploded, prompting a harrowing 3½-day journey back to earth. Now Swigert is undertaking another tense battle. He has learned he has bone-marrow cancer. The Republican candidate in next month's election for a newly created congressional district in suburban Denver, Swigert decided that he would keep on with the race and that he would not keep quiet about the disease. Says he: "We have...
...worried Charles Younger, 38, asked the staff in the Stanford University Hospital deli very room about his newborn's inactivity. He got only brisk reassurances. Finally, after 40 minutes, Younger pleaded: "How can I tell if my baby is alive?" Anna was alive, barely. She was suffering from oxygen deprivation, and the child today is a quadriplegic. But at least Anna will have few financial worries. The reason: an increasingly popular new way to settle malpractice lawsuits...
...basic tenet of the black conservatives is that federal policies and a lack of initiative on the part of blacks, rather than racial discrimination, are the most significant obstacles to progress. Says Economist Walter Williams of Virginia's George Mason University: "Racial discrimination is as pervasive as oxygen, but it doesn't explain very much in itself. Greater focus needs to be placed on the rules of the game." Among the rules of the game that foster black joblessness, he argues, is the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires federal contractors to pay high union wages to semiskilled black...
DIED. Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell, 79, biochemist and winner of a 1955 Nobel Prize for his discoveries about enzymes and their role in helping the body's cells to use oxygen; of heart disease; in Stockholm. Crippled by polio as a young man, he abandoned his plan to practice medicine and went into research instead...