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...newborn demanding immediate attention. Yet last week all Japan seemed to be hanging on the phone to hear an infant shriek. The sound comes from a baby panda born June 1 at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Its plaintive cries were recorded, and can be heard by those dialing a special toll number. Word of the hot line caused pandemonium, and as many as 200,000 calls a day were logged. Zoo officials hope the baby's 226-lb. mother has become nimbler since last year, when she accidentally crushed her firstborn to death...
...Such developments are not easy on a typical worker, whose real wages have sunk, by one estimate, to their 1967 level. Yet many Mexican officials feel that their diligence in making sacrifices, and in honoring every debt payment so far, has been insufficiently recognized by creditors abroad. ''Mexico requires special treatment,'' said Angel Gurria, head of foreign credit at the Finance Ministry. ''But bankers balk at setting a precedent.'' Many of those balkers come from Mexico's potential backers to the north. Former U.S. Ambassador John Gavin reportedly urged American bankers to withhold loans from Mexico until the country began...
When the patient is a child, the ability of parents to provide care becomes relevant. Young transplant recipients require constant monitoring for rejection, lifelong medication and special precautions to avoid infection. For these reasons, says Ethicist Arthur Caplan of the Hastings Center at Hastings- on-Hudson, N.Y., Loma Linda officials ''were definitely right in considering ) whether the family can monitor and care for the baby effectively.'' Jesse's surgeon, Leonard Bailey, also defended the hospital. ''You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee,'' he exclaimed. ''The family has to be very dependable and constant.'' While Loma Linda refused...
...with this girl.'' ALESSANDRA FERRI. No one would ever picture Ferri as a drowsing Oriental beauty. She seems made for motion: wraith-thin, bonelessly supple, with enormous dark eyes that radiate intensity. It is easy to see why Mikhail Baryshnikov's search for a partner stopped with her. ''Her special power comes from her ability to concentrate with such intensity that the audience can directly share her imagination,'' says Baryshnikov. ''It is like listening in on someone's most candid truths about themselves.'' There were no other dancers in Ferri's comfortable Milanese family, but at seven she had determined...
...have turned away and was thinking about music.'' Goodman reserved most of his free time for his wife Alice (Hammond's sister) and their two children at their Manhattan apartment or Connecticut retreat. This year it appeared that he was enjoying a resurgence. In March, PBS broadcast a special for which he fronted a band and sailed through such signature tunes as Let's Dance, Stealin' Apples and King Porter Stomp. The years had not diminished him much. There was the same smooth finger work, the same rhythmic assurance, the same heady, insistent, sweet tone that could cut through...