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...children in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, an AMA publication, estimates that boys ages 5-17 have more than double the bicycle injury rate of girls. The reason: even though boys may ride longer distances and spend more time on their bikes, they also indulge in riskier riding styles and don't like to wear helmets...
Close watchers of Seagram thought Bronfman got too little for his Du Pont stake. Says Ken Shea, an analyst at Standard & Poor's: "It doesn't make sense to dump a solid business like Du Pont, which throws off good dividends, and take on a much riskier investment in MCA. But then the press accounts of Edgar Jr. don't give him a lot of credit. They paint him as a Dan Quayle who is ready to wreck Seagram...
Gingrich and his fellow leaders balked at the request late last week, calculating that it is riskier to rewrite the contract than simply to lose a vote on it. Besides, Gingrich knows that the prospects for tax cuts of any kind appear to be fading in the Senate. Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon returned from a weekend retreat with his Senate Finance Committee and pronounced tax cuts all but dead. "What all of us have discovered when we go home," he said, "is that the public, over and over, is saying to us, As between the two, we'd rather...
Legislation that would strip pro baseball of its 72-year-old antitrust exemption was approved by a House subcommittee today. It won't save the 1994 World Series, but Congress' involvement could change the face of the game, making a Big League franchise a riskier proposition for owners. During last week's congressional hearings, players vowed to return to the field if the owners' monopoly privileges were ended. A similar bill is making its way through the Senate...
...Scientists are developing testing procedures that will allow doctors to screen unborn infants for genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome by isolating fetal cells in the mother's blood, thereby reducing the need for riskier procedures...