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...WHAT WOULD THE FORBIDDEN SEGMENT OF 60 Minutes have contained? An interview with Jeffrey S. Wigand, a biochemist and endocrinologist who now teaches high school in Louisville, Kentucky. Between December 1988 and March 1993, Wigand worked at Brown & Williamson as a $300,000-a-year vice president whose work focused partly on attempts by B&W to develop nontoxic and fire-retardant cigarettes--a project that Wigand reportedly told CBS it never pursued in earnest...
According to the New York Daily News, the 60 Minutes transcript shows that Wigand charged that B&W abandoned its plans to develop a safer cigarette and altered documents to delete any reference to the aborted effort. He also claims that Thomas Sandefur, the company's CEO, perjured himself before a congressional committee when he denied knowledge of how cigarettes were used to deliver nicotine...
...pack-rat midden is a snapshot of the flora and fauna existing within about 50 m ((164 ft.)) of the midden at the time it was accumulating," explains Peter Wigand, a paleoecologist at the University of Nevada's Desert Research Institute. Scientists can pin down the approximate time the snapshot was taken by radiocarbon dating of a preserved twig or fecal pellet; the technique can date specimens that are more than 40,000 years old. And by studying middens of different vintages in the same area, researchers can in effect create a movie from a sequence of snapshots, showing changes...
Although Geoff Scott, Dartmouth's number one man, demonstrated extraordinary chasing ability, Anil Nayar dominated play so effortlessly that the outcome of the match was never in question Michel Schienmann, (3), Ed Atwood (7), and Bruce Wigand, (9), were no less convincing in their control of their matches, as they...
...jumped a notch from fifth to fourth place by outlasting Fernando Gonzalez in a gruelling five-game match. Peter Abrams defended his number six position by defeating challenger and number seven man Steve Whitman, 3-1. Finally, Ed Atwood extended his undefeated string of challenge matches by eliminating Bruce Wigand, 3-1, to earn his number eight ranking...