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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1998
Page
3
NBC plans 30 second Seinfeld finale spots at 1.5 to 1.7 million dollars each, sources say. The price tops the 1.3 million paid for the Super Bowl in January as up to 90 million viewers may tune in on May 14. NBC has sold all national 10 minutes of ads and may extend the program by 15 minutes.
Polish immigrant Zygmunt Arendt died at 92 and left a hand written will naming Mayor Willie Brown and the Board of Supervisors as executors to disperse at least 2 million dollars to the poor elderly disabled children. The estate includes a five room house and is valued at 2 million. Arendt lived in San Francisco for 40 years and worked 14 years as a car inspector for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He never married and has German relatives.
In Washington Brazil announced a two year commitment to bring under protection 62 million acres of rainforest, an alliance with the World Bank and World Wildlife Fund. President Cardoso praised the pledge and noted two new protected areas totaling nearly four million acres.
Owners withdraw two Pierre Bonnard works from a Museum of Modern Art exhibit citing the New York district attorney seizure last January of two artworks alleged looted by Nazis. The move marks the first direct consequence of the seizure with experts warning of a dangerous precedent.
In a Kirkhaven nursing home study, dementia patients aged 72 to 95 rocked for six weeks then six more with nonmoving wedges. After 70 minutes daily, 18 showed up to a one third drop in anxiety and low mood, seven used less pain medication, and smiles and brighter expressions increased, linked to potential endorphin effects.
Two doctors aboard the shuttle Columbia performed leg surgery on six anesthetized baby rats as part of a study of nerve development in weightlessness. Fifty-one of ninety-six rats died aboard the mission due to factors like low blood sugar and dehydration, with six fit survivors undergoing limb operations to track muscle and nerve growth. The work aims to inform future human healing and space station plans, though the mortality issue awaits postflight analysis.
Vice President Al Gore travels to the Middle East to push Israel and the Palestinians toward renewed negotiations as a looming May 4 1999 deadline for statehood looms. He will meet Israeli and Palestinian officials and discuss land withdrawals and security, amid stalled talks and an imminent London meeting chaired by the United States and Britain.
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