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...argue that the hazards of EDB are exaggerated. "Compared with smoking, the danger of eating a few muffins is incredibly low," says Bruce Ames, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of California at Berkeley. "It doesn't deserve the headlines it's been getting. A peanut-butter sandwich is more of a risk." For state and federal regulators, the real question is what level of risk is acceptable. "Any amount is a risk," says Olaf Leifson, environmental monitoring chief for the California department of food and agriculture. "It's how much society wants to tolerate...
...expected that IBM will finally and formally present its new home computer this week. About 100,000 of the machines are to be shipped to stores across the U.S. before Christmas. Originally code-named Peanut and now styled the PCjr, the computer should be exultantly greeted by computer-store owners, who have been turning away would-be customers for months. "We've never seen such a tremendous demand for a product that does not even exist," says one Manhattan store manager...
...industry is bracing for IBM's entry into the market for home computers. Although IBM still refuses even to confirm the machine's existence, the company is expected to introduce a smaller, less expensive version of the PC, once code named the Peanut, as early as this month. One outsider claims that Peanuts have already been shipped to independent software developers so that they can work out bugs in programs for the new machine...
...Peanut is expected to sell for $600 to $700 stripped down; $1,300 with a monitor and other extras. Anticipation of its arrival has already driven down the stock price of competitors like Apple, Coleco and Commodore. Says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter: "It is like living under Mount St. Helens while it is rumbling. You can't rebuild your house until after the eruption...
Last year Murphy recorded an album of his stand-up comedy at the Comic Strip in Manhattan, where a few years earlier he had been working for peanut shells. The LP, an undisciplined 48 minutes mixing raunchy insults with on-target family humor, copped two Grammy nominations and has sold 250,000 copies...