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DIED. JOSE GRECO, 82, Italian-born Brooklyn-raised dancer who popularized Spanish dance--especially the showy, cape-snapping flamenco--for worldwide audiences in the 1950s and '60s; in Lancaster, Pa. A popular guest on such shows as Ed Sullivan, Greco drew 19,000 fans to a New York City stadium...
...Alcoa on its core products, made a huge push for workplace safety, sold its corporate aircraft and hacked away at decades of hierarchy to help encourage ideas from the bottom up. He worked out of a 9-ft. by 9-ft. cubicle on the top floor of the Pittsburgh, Pa., headquarters. "It's a pretty nice cubicle," said a friend, "but it's still a cubicle...
...Heart A powerful new clot-busting drug, tenecteplase, reduced treatment time for heart-attack victims from 90 minutes to just five seconds. Clinical trials showed the drug to be as effective as the standard clot buster t-PA and easier to use since it can be administered in one quick injection instead of an hour-and-a-half infusion. Tenecteplase, which was approved by the FDA last June, is also longer acting and specifically targets blood clots, rather than indiscriminately thinning the blood. Good news for the more than 1.1 million Americans each year who suffer a heart attack...
...party usually remains the same after a fair manual recount--unless extra ballots turn up. A manual recount using different standards to decide voter intention can be exceedingly unfair. We should avoid manual recounts or insist that they have uniform standards in all precincts. JOHN S. NISBET State College, Pa...
...legislature has enacted laws that allow for manual recounts but do not provide deadlines with enough time to do such recounts. Perhaps the Florida Supreme Court is rewriting election laws, but someone must deal with the flaws that the Florida legislature has left us with. RONALD R. BRUCE Orwigsburg, Pa...