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...Ross has the same relaxed attitude about his year in Europe. "I took German A freshman year," he says, "so I think I'll be able to manage...
...year after next. Ross has been offered solo management from Grapa Concert--an arts management firm that recently opened in New York City. And over this summer he plans to play with the Boston Pops, a "great job" which he looks forward to as a means of staying both cool and rich during the hot summer months...
...Ross probably doesn't need to worry much about his future. A prodigy on the French horn form an early age. and the conductor of the Bach Society Orchestra for the last year and a half, Ross has already made many of the necessary connections for a solo career in music...
...stop bleeding by promoting clotting. These "little plates" produce a chemical, thromboxane, that constricts blood vessels and signals other platelets to gather round. The platelets also manufacture a chemical that induces the artery's exposed underlying muscle cells to multiply. "If the injury is short-lived," says Russell Ross of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, "the proliferation process is reversible. But if the injury is chronic and repeated in the same sites in an artery wall, then you have a buildup." Cholesterol and debris collect around the muscle cells, an atherosclerotic plaque develops...
...DIED. Ross Allen, 73, noted herpetologist who in 1929 founded Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, a research center at Silver Springs, Fla., and who survived eleven bites from the lethal likes of rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouth snakes; of cancer; in Gainesville, Fla. A stand-in for Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s, Allen was in the final stages of building a million-dollar tourist attraction called Alligator Town, scheduled to open this summer near Lake City...