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...computing industry. In an unprecedented step for Big Blue, Gerstner launched a hostile bid to acquire Lotus for $3.3 billion, or $60 a share, more than twice the price at which the stock had been trading. At the same time, IBM went to court to challenge a Lotus "poison pill" that would make a takeover prohibitively expensive and appealed to Lotus shareholders to oust the firm's board of directors. "Call this IBM unleashed," says Marc Schulman, president of Technology Strategies Group, a Connecticut firm that consults with computer companies. "The whole mind-set of the company has changed...
...plans to pay for the acquisition out of its $10 billion cash holdings and has started legal action to prevent Lotus directors from using a "poison pill" strategy to block the takeover...
...Through a series of vibrantly photographed and seamlessly edited flashbacks, we watch a thirtyish Dolores deal with Joe's abuse and alcoholism, her new job as Vera's housekeeper and the erratic behavior of teen-aged Selena (over-acted by the newcomer Ellen Muth). Meanwhile, in the present, the pill-popping Selena tries to negotiate some sort of relationship with her mother while protecting her from the nasty detective. As the movie progress, we learn the vaguely shocking and not terribly original truth about the deaths of Joe and Vera...
...Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his pioneering work on hormones; in Munich. Beginning in 1929, Butenandt isolated a number of previously unknown sex hormones, including progesterone, which maintains pregnancy. The knowledge of hormonal structure gained from this research made possible the development of the birth-control pill. A Nazi law forced Butenandt to decline his Nobel Prize, which he finally received in 1949. After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist who invented the Milo chocolate malt drink that is a staple...
HEALTH: Search for a Pill to Deter Aging...