Word: sherwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sidekicks produce some of the show's lewdest gems. Flapper waitresses Trixie deTrade (Sherwin Parikh '90), a Joisey homegirl in a clingy jade satin mini and fuschia bikini top, and Sheila Lowitt, with sinister eye makeup, deftly trade bedtime barbs. When Trixie is scared by Sheila's desire to be a thespian, Sheila wonders, "How can you be so shallow?" "My boyfriend says I'm deep," Trixie retorts...
...James Sherwin, vice chairman of GAF, is a chess master who delights in plotting diversions to fool his opponents. Now Sherwin, 54, stands accused of < using such tactics to dupe investors. Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Sherwin and GAF, a New Jersey-based chemical and building- products manufacturer, on criminal fraud and conspiracy charges for allegedly manipulating the price of Union Carbide stock. GAF and Sherwin are the latest target of investigations growing out of the Ivan Boesky insider- trading probe...
...crime allegedly occurred in late 1986, when GAF had built up a 10% stake in Union Carbide in a failed takeover bid. Sherwin allegedly persuaded Jeffries & Co., a Los Angeles brokerage, to buy Union Carbide stock to create the impression in the market that the issue was increasing in value. Later, after the price of the stock went up, GAF sold most of its Union Carbide shares for $115 million. GAF has denied any wrongdoing...
...found. He emphasizes that scientists do not yet fully understand, among other things, how B and T cells differentiate, and how the immune system's genes are turned on and off at different times. "In the truest sense," he says, "immunology is just in its youth." Still, says Sherwin, "there's an enormous amount we know now that we didn't know five years ago, and five years from now we'll know even more." Immunology may indeed still be in its youth, but it is growing up fast...
...compared favorably with the most complex organ of them all, the brain. "The immune system has a phenomenal ability for dealing with information, for learning and memory, for creating and storing and using information," explains Immunologist William Paul of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Declares Dr. Stephen Sherwin, director of clinical research at Genentech: "It's an incredible system. It recognizes molecules that have never been in the body before. It can differentiate between what belongs there and what doesn...