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BEST COMEBACK Returning to the ring against everyone's wishes, Sugar Ray Leonard protected his repaired retina long enough to restore his crown in a startling upset of Middleweight Champion Marvin Hagler...
Many future scientists have gone on to even greater heights of glory after first exploring topics in their theses. The 1972 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Christian Boehmer Anfinsen wrote his 1943 graduate thesis on "Quantitative Histochemical Studies of the Retina...
...camps -- those who like despising it and those who dislike loving it -- are unsurprised whenever Roberto Duran or George Foreman comes back again. But they wonder how a bright person as prosperous as Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard, namesake of a blind man) could return from retirement and retina surgery to fight Marvin Hagler at any price. "Ray doesn't spend in a year what his investments earn in a year," says Leonard's attorney, Mike Trainer. "It isn't money. Boxing is what gets him up in the morning. It's what he is, and there's nothing...
Thatcher, who had surgery for a detached retina in 1983, remains in vigorous overall health. Within hours of the operation she was studying government papers. Said one aide: "Anyone who thinks she'll cut down her work load doesn't know Margaret Thatcher...
...blocking angiogenin, on the other hand, doctors might not only stop the growth of tumors but perhaps prevent blindness in diabetics, a complication that results from the abnormal growth of capillaries in the retina. A possible bonus: tests for angiogenin in the blood or urine could provide early warnings of cancer...