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...greater chance of dying from the anesthesia," noted Dr. Richard Aster of the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin. Stanford University Statistician Lincoln Moses estimated that about 120 AIDS-infected samples slip into the blood supply each year, out of a total of 12 million units donated. Since each pint donated can be split among two or three recipients, as many as 360 people could receive AIDS-infected blood each year, though how many will develop the disease is unknown. The main reason for the slipups, explains Chalmers, is that the existing blood- screening test detects antibodies to the AIDS virus...
...race frisky with 16 three-year-olds: 14 confessed drug users (of one kind or the other lately permissible), a British chestnut addicted only to Guinness Stout (a pint a day with his oats and carrots) and that California fresh-air fiend Ferdinand. For all of his clean living, Ferdinand drew the dreaded rail, and the pinch at the start of the stampede was so precariously tight that Shoemaker had to stand virtually straight up in the irons. With every one of his 96 lbs., he yanked in the reins magnificently to hold Ferdinand on the course. They settled down...
Needham ($847 million) is the smallest of the three, but it brings a strong domestic network to the merger. Some industry wags saw a resemblance between Needham's role in the deal and its Wheaties ads, in which pint-size Olympic Gold Medalist Mary Lou Retton gulps down cereal with the "big boys." Doyle Dane Bernbach ($1.7 billion) has the most to gain. After scoring numerous hits over the years with ads for longtime client Volkswagen, the agency attracted notice with its beguiling babies series for Michelin tires. But DDB lost several major clients in 1985, dropping $45 million...
...married, more and more Americans are living and eating alone. Rather than sit down to a feast each night, they often choose to heat and eat a Lean Cuisine or Le Menu frozen dinner. Now comes a convenient appliance in which to cook such solitary repasts: the Half Pint microwave oven. Made by Japan's Sharp Electronics, this compact cooker is small enough (13 in. by 13 in.) to fit snugly into the tiniest studio apartment. It will bake a potato in six minutes, only a tad slower than the four minutes that a typical full-size microwave takes...
Priced at $129, the Half Pint is selling well to all kinds of customers who are short on kitchen space, from college students living in dormitories to camping enthusiasts who like to have hot meals in their recreational vehicles. "We were completely sold out after Christmas," says Byron Wilson, a microwave-oven sales specialist for the Bamberger's department store in Paramus, N.J. "We've even had to take reservations for future shipments." Since the small oven was introduced in the U.S. seven months ago, Sharp has sold about 250,000 Half Pints, compared with only...