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...some undetermined point, the public will start to feel more than a little edgy. Says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management: "For the U.S., it happens when our debts seem to be unreasonable to the rest of the world relative to our wealth, when we start looking like Brazil." At that point, some unexpected event could trigger a panic. Says Rohatyn: "The cause is utterly unpredictable. Some trading company in Hong Kong will go belly-up, or perhaps a bank in Luxembourg...
...common colorectal cancer. Result: the section of chromosome 5 that contains the FAP gene was missing in more than 25% of the cases. The finding suggested that such cancers occur only after one protective gene is lost and the other is inactivated. Says Gastroenterologist Sidney Winawer, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City: "This gives us a better idea of where to look for a genetic cause of colon cancer...
...courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in liberal-arts studies at Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh. Reed served in Korea as an Army Corps of Engineers officer, then briefly joined Goodyear Tire & Rubber as a trainee. In 1965 he earned a business degree from M. I. T. 's Sloan School of Management, signing on after graduation with Citicorp's predecessor, First National City Bank. Within five years, Reed found himself head of the bank's notoriously disorganized back-office operations, which were plagued by backlogs of check-processing paperwork. Reed cleared up the mess by starting work before dawn...
...transfusion recipient sexually active? Says Sloan-Kettering's Donald Armstrong: "If I were 70 years old, not planning to have a family and had had just one transfusion, I would not run to get my blood tested. But if I were 25 and had had 20 transfusions, and was planning to start a family, I would definitely go. One has to weigh the risks...
Possibly thanks to McLain, only a few coaches have criticized the tournament drug-testing procedure inaugurated by the N.C.A.A. this year, a painstaking postgame process that forgot to allow for dehydrated athletes. Coach Norm Sloan of Florida, fearing passive contamination, packed up the whole team and fled a Syracuse Holiday Inn when one of the Gators thought he detected a wisp of marijuana smoke curling out of the room next door...