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Unlike several of the other businesses, however, Schoenhof's will not return to its former location. Instead, it has signed a ten-year lease with first-time landlord the Spee, a Harvard final club...
...tour of Western Europe, President Samora Machel, 50, was presented with a medal from Queen Elizabeth, and persuaded the British government to waive his country's payment of a $30 million debt. In Portugal, Mozambique's longtime colonial master and Machel's bitter foe during a ten-year struggle for independence, the former guerrilla commander declared that the two countries were bound "in a friendship of steel." Upon returning home, he gave his blessing to the accreditation of an American ambassador less than three years after expelling four U.S. diplomats on charges of spying. And last week...
...power of the strongest dollar in years. Propelled by the high level of U.S. interest rates and concerns about political instability abroad, the dollar smashed records for three straight days. The U.S. currency reached alltime highs against the French franc, the Italian lira and the British pound, and a ten-year peak in relation to the West German mark. By the end of the week, a dollar was worth 8.59 francs, 1,700.25 lire and 2.8 marks. The pound cost only $1.40. The dollar's gains continued even though the U.S. Federal Reserve was selling greenbacks to brake...
Until recently, such breast-sparing techniques were universally considered to be inadequate and dangerous. Today, the evidence is to the contrary. Last month, at a meeting at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., noted Italian Oncologist Umberto Veronesi presented the results of a landmark ten-year study comparing survival after a mastectomy with survival following a less disfiguring operation called quadrectomy (see diagram). His conclusion: "There is absolutely no difference...
Many physicians have resisted the new techniques because they fear that without mastectomy cancer will be more likely to recur and more patients will die. The ten-year Italian results may convert the skeptics, although Veronesi warns, "Next the surgeons are going to want to see the 15-year outcome, and then...