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...Harvard baseball team entered this year boasting one of the premier hitting teams in the nation...
...Rashid al-Maktoum, whose family possesses more racehorses than anyone else in the world, has other ideas. He would like Arazi to shoot for an unprecedented transatlantic double by running in the Kentucky Derby and then going on in June to the $1 million Epsom Derby, Britain's premier flat race. Contesting Epsom as well as the full Triple Crown is impossible because the events are spaced too closely on the calendar...
...Food and Drug Administration to further streamline drug-approval procedures. Last week a panel of experts recommended that the government agency give its conditional blessing to dideoxycytidine, or DDC. Although preliminary studies indicate that this antiviral medication may not work as well as AZT which still ranks as the premier AIDS treatment, the combination of drugs seems to rejuvenate some of the immune cells that are normally destroyed during the course of the disease...
...that began the universe, a time when all of space was hot, dense and incandescently bright. The radiation is still around now, 15 billion years later, cooled far below zero and transformed from visible light to microwaves. Its discovery in the mid-1960s confirmed the Big Bang as the premier theory of the universe. The theory also says the temperature of this background radiation must vary from spot to spot in the sky. The variations come from areas of higher and lower density in the universe at that time; without density fluctuations then, there could be no galaxies...
Walt Disney World in Orlando is a theme park with hotels attached. Euro Disney is the reverse: a spectacular sprawl that confirms the company as a premier force in modern architecture. A decade ago, as architects began to shrug off their Modernist doldrums, they saw in Disney's park designs an attractive blend of wit, glamour and function. Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan...