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RELEASED. CANAAN BANANA, 64, ex-President of Zimbabwe, after serving a jail term for sodomy; in Harare. A Methodist minister and professor of theology, Banana committed the acts while serving a seven-year term as titular President after the nation gained independence in 1980. Convicted on 11 counts of sodomy, Banana was released after serving eight months of a one-year sentence, getting time off for good behavior...
...Rockefeller-sponsored meeting, Potrykus met the University of Freiburg's Peter Beyer, an expert on the beta-carotene pathway in daffodils. They decided to combine their expertise. In 1993, with some $100,000 in seed money from the Rockefeller Foundation, Potrykus and Beyer launched what turned into a seven-year, $2.6 million project, backed by the Swiss government and the European Union. "I was in a privileged situation," reflects Potrykus, "because I was able to operate without industrial support. Only in that situation can you think of giving away your work for free...
...when the number of core offerings had hit a seven-year low, the Faculty resolved to increase Core offerings in order to increase student choice and decrease class sizes. That spring, there were only 42 Core courses offered. Yet since the Faculty's decision, reform has been slow in coming: this spring there are only 47 courses being offered in the original Core areas, and the number of cross-listed classes has not grown quickly enough to counter the shortfall...
DIVORCING. KIM BASINGER, 47, blond Oscar-winning actress and former Breck girl; from ALEC BALDWIN, 42, actor, activist, eldest Baldwin brother; after a seven-year marriage, citing irreconcilable differences; in Los Angeles...
...wall and modified its reserve clause to allow for free agency. With players permitted to shop themselves to any bidder after a few years of service, the floodgates opened to larger amounts of money and scorn. There was alarm when Reggie Jackson was given $2.9 million a year in 1976; shock when one-dimensional Jose Canseco became the game's salary king at $4.7 million in 1990; disbelief when pitcher Kevin Brown signed a seven-year, $105 million deal in '98. Observers from Bob Costas to Joe Blow said the sky had fallen, hell had frozen over, pigs had flown...