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...Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula, Fla., on Dec. 2, 1978. After delivery, their pink-cheeked infant scored a perfect 10 on the Apgar health rating. Nevertheless the baby the Twiggs took home suffered from a heart abnormality. The child's weight was allegedly changed from 8 lbs. 6 oz. to 6 lbs. on the birth certificate, which also recorded Arlena's blood type as O. A battery of genetic tests proved that the child the Twiggs had raised for ten years could not have been their daughter. Last week the family filed a $100 million lawsuit against the hospital, three...
...current craze stems from studies showing that oats, particularly oat bran, can have a salutary effect on blood levels of total cholesterol and, even better, of the "bad" type of cholesterol known as LDL (low-density lipoprotein). Researchers have found that consuming 1 1/2 to 3 oz. of oat bran daily for six to eight weeks can lower total cholesterol some 20% and LDLs as much as 25%. "It's great stuff," says Dr. James Anderson of the University of Kentucky, who pioneered the study of oat bran in the 1970s. Anderson estimates that up to 85% of Americans with...
...which consumers respond to the price increases with grudging acceptance. But some prices are still bound to produce a mild case of sticker shock. At one market in Baltimore, boxes of Post Grape-Nuts cereal have been marked up four times in the past six weeks. The 12-oz. package now costs $2.01, up 30 cents...
During the New York trial, Bunker Hunt testified that he began accumulating silver in 1973 as a hedge against inflation, "to invest in something I could get my hands on." By late 1979, the brothers had acquired more than 180 million oz. of bullion and coin. Prices rocketed to euphoric heights, hitting a peak of $50.35 per oz. in January...
...much for minor-league franchises. "It's a rich man's game now," says Harry Steve, general manager of the San Jose Giants. Adds El Paso Diablos Owner Jim Paul: "I keep saying prices are going to hit a limit, although they don't." Like gold at $800 an oz. and stocks when the Dow hit 2700, the value of minor- league clubs could be due for a tumble...