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...substance, called tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), is normally produced by the body in small amounts to prevent excessive clotting and to break down old clots that no longer serve any purpose. The Harvard researchers have used genetic engineering techniques to manufacture large quantities of t-PA, with the hope of bolstering the heart patient's anti-clotting mechanisms. According to Braunwald, "The aim is to use the body's own system to eliminate the clot before it can do too much damage to the heart...
...Ruth tried to persuade her daughter to commit herself to a hospital for treatment. "She said I had no business telling her what to do and that I couldn't make her do anything," the mother said. The same day Seegrist donned Army combat fatigues, drove to a Springfield, Pa., mall and began firing at shoppers with a .22-cal. carbine. Before being disarmed by a graduate student who thought she was firing blanks, she shot ten people, killing a 2 1/2-year-old boy and a 64-year-old man. At her arraignment on murder charges, Seegrist was as defiant...
...scholarly, reserved chairman from 1955 to 1969 of U.S. Steel, then the nation's fourth-largest company in terms of assets and the flagship of U.S. industry, who in 1962 had the misfortune to tangle with President John F. Kennedy over a proposed steel-price rise; in Hawley, Pa. An infuriated Kennedy called out several federal departments and agencies, including the antitrust division and the FBI, to investigate U.S. Steel; Blough had to back down from the price boost after other steel companies declined to follow his firm's lead...
...nine-month-long spill of chemicals into the Susquehanna River starting in 1979, it was found that a small Pennsylvania company had / been systematically, and illegally, dumping toxic wastes into shafts that fed into the Butler Tunnel, an outlet for waste water from abandoned coal mines near Pittston, Pa. Three men were convicted of violating the state's Clean Streams Act, and one was sent to prison. The three and their company were fined $750,000. EPA supervised the cleanup of the river pollution, and in 1982 it took the site off its priority list. But heavy rains from Hurricane...
Lafayette capitalized on Columbia turnovers to blank the hapless Lions, 20-0, Saturday at Easton, Pa...