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Twisted as the drama may seem, the Jorge case was a heartache waiting to happen. During the past decade, the number of U.S. fertility clinics has swelled tenfold, to 300, yet the industry has evaded any regulatory oversight. Last May scandal erupted when Asch and two other UCI doctors were accused of stealing eggs and embryos from as many as 100 patients for research or implantation in others. Asch, who has fled to Mexico City, is currently under federal investigation for mail fraud, tax evasion and fertility-drug smuggling, as well as the thefts. Professing his innocence, he told TIME...
From 1978 until 1991, when he became President Bush's Secretary of Education, Alexander increased his net worth at least tenfold, to somewhere between $1.5 million and $3 million. During that time, he spent all but 18 months in public office as Governor and president of the University of Tennessee. He and his wife made quick profits, with little money down, in investments offered by political backers and men who did business with the state. While he was Governor in 1981, Alexander joined a group of investors who obtained an option to buy the Knoxville Journal. Alexander...
...value of Nikkei futures on the exchanges of Singapore and Osaka, Japan, and make millions by exploiting the spread, buying where the price was low and immediately selling where it was high. But those 1994 profits now seem almost paltry. In 1995 the losses would increase more than tenfold...
...defeats what we're trying to do because it's going to be discredited," says David Pilgrim, a sociologist at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. "All the good reasons why it was proposed are going to come back tenfold as negatives on the black community -- and on the black intellectual community specifically." Pilgrim, who is black, calls the claims of the extremists "pseudoscience" and "reverse Jensenism," referring to the controversial theories of Arthur Jensen, who argued that blacks were genetically less intelligent on average than whites...
...Michael Jordan to take the sport into the promised land of perpetually full arenas and high Nielsen ratings. Everybody liked Mike. The N.B.A. groomed Jordan just the way his corporate sponsors did. In his nine years as a player in Chicago, the value of the Bulls franchise increased nearly tenfold. In 1984, Jordan's rookie year, only 14% of Bull home games were sold out; last year none of the Bulls' 41 home games had an empty seat. The Bulls are a microcosm of the N.B.A. In 1984 the N.B.A.'s revenue from television was a little over $30 million...