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...minutes of thrills as a passenger in a MiG-29 Fulcrum, the U.S.S.R.'s hottest jet fighter. A few intrepid customers have signed up for rides ranging from a gentle swing around the airfield to a serious workout at 1,500 m.p.h. The thrills start this weekend at Massachusetts' Westfield-Barnes airport and then continue at shows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Kansas and California...
...offer hope to thousands of others? Pregnant women in the 1950s took thalidomide to combat morning sickness. When some 12,000 gave birth to tragically deformed children, the doomed drug was abruptly withdrawn. Now it is making a quiet comeback. Andrulis Pharmaceuticals of Beltsville, Md., and Pediatric Pharmaceuticals of Westfield, N.J., have asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve thalidomide for experimental use. Andrulis wants it for a clinical study of patients with bone-marrow transplants. By suppressing the immune response, thalidomide may prevent the new marrow from attacking the body. Pediatric plans to provide the drug to investigators...
Poor communities are looking for the courts to save them, Robin Hood-style, by shifting funds from richer ones. "There are school districts with swimming pools," growls Steve Honselman, a school-board vice president in Illinois' Casey-Westfield district. "Meanwhile, we don't have advanced-placement classes." He and his wife are part of a class action demanding that the state equalize school funding. "With three children in the schools," says Honselman, "we've tried everything from bake sales to raffles to raise funds. But we can't raise enough." Last week Texas failed for a third time to come...
Weld won September's primary without theendorsement of the GOP state committee, a prizethat went to the more conservative House MinorityLeader Steven D. Pierce (R-Westfield...
Personal background: Pierce was born in Johnstown, N.Y. The son of a carpenter, he was raised in Westfield. He received a B.A. in economics from Union College in 1971, and graduated from Duke University Law School in 1974. He lives with his wife, Mary Jane, in Westfield. They have...