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Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., announced a joint venture with Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, the powerful Hollywood figures who recently formed their own entertainment conglomerate. The new company, in a deal indicative of the changing relationships between networks and studios, entered a seven-year contract to produce programming for networks, cable services, syndication and other media; ABC, in turn, will invest $100 million in the TV studio, giving it a 50% share in both financing and profits...
Kabawat acknowledged that the more than $650,000 in cash and $75,000 in loans raised by the coalition were crucial to its victory on several fronts. Several Question 9 opponents said they will have to move if their rents are raised. "I'd move," said Tom Martin, a seven-year Cambridge tenant who voted no on Question 9. "I anticipated that my rent would probably double...
...Journal of the National Cancer Institute. But when a study says that having an abortion can increase a woman's risk of getting breast cancer, science cannot be guaranteed silence. Months before the report's scheduled publication this week, pro-life groups laid plans to trumpet the seven-year study's findings. In the opposition camp, pro-choice groups marshaled the statistics they needed to defuse the new findings. As the release date neared, editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer learned of the report, broke an embargo and rushed the results into print a week ahead of time...
Some reporters highlighted every possible flaw in the study, prompting epidemiologist Janet Daling of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle to defend her team's work. She pointed out that the investigation followed 1,800 women over a seven-year period, making it one of the largest studies ever to examine the relationship between abortion and cancer. "I'm absolutely appalled that politics is entering into the science of this study," the researcher complains. "No one is getting any of the correct information out to the public...
...mathematics prize was awarded to the Southern Baptist Church of Alabama for its county by county estimate of how many Alabamian citizens will go to hell if they don't repent. And the physics prize was given to the Japanese Meterological Agency, for its seven-year study on whether earthquake are caused by catfish moving their tails...