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Corporate raider Carl Icahn, who owns 17.3% of Texaco, has tirelessly hectored its top management for 1 1/2 years with charges that the giant oil company is poorly run. Icahn has repeatedly threatened to stage a hostile takeover, and even tried unsuccessfully to replace Texaco's directors in an old-fashion proxy fight late last spring. Finally, after 14 hours of peace talks, Icahn agreed last week to sign a standstill agreement that prevents him from buying any more stock in the company or trying to wrest control for another seven years...
...work combines the efforts of three top NIH scientists: Steven Rosenberg, an expert in cancer therapy, and W. French Anderson and R. Michael Blaese, two master gene manipulators. For several years Rosenberg has been developing a novel cancer treatment using a type of cancer-fighting cell called TILs (tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes). He removes TILs from cancer patients and clones large quantities of the cells in the laboratory. When this army of cells is reinjected into the patients, their tumors can shrink significantly. In one experiment with metastatic melanoma patients, 60% of them benefited from the therapy. But Rosenberg still needs...
Someday almost assuredly. "Jimmy has a tremendous ambition and drive to reach the top," says Susan Baker. "But the presidency is the last thing in his mind right now. We don't spend a lot of time strategizing about it. Right now, he's got to be the best Secretary of State he can. The rest may come from that later...
...Crimson once again displayed its intense determination to fight and beat the odds. With the team's top three players losing to the talented top trio of Quakers, the Crimson had to rely once again on the team depth to pull out a win over the Quakers...
...never pleased with second place," sophomore Stephanie Clark said. "We would have liked to have won it. We worked hard, we tried, but we didn't come out on top...