Word: sheldon
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...CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE. A 1991 survey conducted by the Gediman Research Group found that 64% of affluent Americans are more concerned with enjoying a comfortable retirement than leaving behind a sizable estate. "I'm free of guilt," says William McCarty, 66, a former grain and cattle farmer from Sheldon, Iowa, who has traveled to China and Russia since retiring. Next month he's off to Germany and Italy. "I keep telling my sons that I'm not going until it's all gone...
...such an improbable phantom. Their quarry is the top quark, the sole missing member of a family of subatomic particles that form the basic building blocks of matter. Of six types of quarks that are believed to exist, five have already been discovered. "The top," says Harvard University theorist Sheldon Glashow, "is not just another quark. It's the last blessed one, and the sooner we find it, the better everyone will feel...
...small group of protestors said they hoped the demonstration would send a message to Sheldon Cohen, who runs Out of Town News, and other violators of political freedom. "I'm angry that Mr. Cohen is perpetrating a bureaucratic cruelty," said protestor Aaron T. Snopek, holding a "Justice for the Bagel Man" sign...
Also in attendance: an assortment of "experiments" clad in shiny radiation-proof suits, the King and Queen of Swedish Meatballs, and Harvard's very own Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins professor of physics and actual recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics...
...said Sheldon, who has become a religious-right activist as head of the Traditional Values Coalition. He has plenty of company among clergymen -- even those who shun direct political involvement. Floyd Smith, pastor of West Virginia's Hedgesville Baptist Church, also rues his one Carter ballot: . "To vote for a person just because he's born again is a mistake I won't make a second time." Smith wants a President "who will fight for our rights" against pro-choice feminists, atheists, gay-rights activists and others who threaten his brand of morality. "We're getting it shoved...