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Harvard's Christina Dragomirescu, the tournament's 14th-seed, captured the individual title with a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 victory over Brown's Anna Sloan, who was seeded third...
...first round match, Bland dropped a 6-3, 6-3 decision to eventual runner-up Sloan, while deLone was uspet in the second-round by Carrie Bentzel of Syracuse...
...workers help take care of elderly relatives. So starting last February, the computer company began operating the first nationwide elder-care referral service for its 237,000 employees and 33,000 retirees. In the first month alone, more than 4,000 employees called for help. Bobby Sloan, 55, an IBM equipment designer in San Jose, Calif., used the service to arrange medical care for his mother, a 78-year-old victim of Alzheimer's disease who lives 2,000 miles away in Ponca, Okla. Says he: "I don't believe I could have done it without them." Transamerica, Arthur Andersen...
What can be done to help U.S. companies gain global clout? Many business leaders and economists contend that major companies must be permitted to work together, in some cases to plot joint international strategies. According to economists like Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, U.S. antitrust laws may be out of date in an era when it is virtually impossible for one company to monopolize the world market. In Japan major companies work together and with government planners to a much greater degree. Says Motorola's Weisz: "We can't continue as a house divided against...
...bewildering array of names and functions. There are, for instance, three types of interferon -- alpha, beta and gamma. Alpha alone comes in more than a dozen varieties. Interleukins are similarly prolific. "We are already up to interleukin-7 and interleukin-8," says Immunologist Lloyd Old, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, "and one can expect that we will go on from there." Scientists have so far discovered at least five different colony-stimulating factors, which cause cells in the bone marrow to mature and differentiate into red and white blood cells. Each of the players seems...