Rising Tide: The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Rising Tide: The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 7,000 for the first time Thursday (D1), and stocks of many Valley-based companies floated up with it. Walt Disney’s stock closed at $77.375, up 75 cents for the day; Great Western Financial jumped $1.125 per share and closed at $35.25; Litton Industries closed at $43.75, up 87.5 cents; and Glendale Federal Bank climbed 37.5 cents to $25.375.
Sit-Up or Pay Up: So, you think one of those $100 super-action, advertised-on-TV sit-up devices will help you develop a washboard belly? It will--but not any faster than doing sit-ups the old fashioned way, according to a study by CSUN professor Bill Whiting. . . . “Sometimes,” Whiting said, “you have to prove the obvious.”
All in the Family: What do you do if your mother, father, grandmother and grandfather are all Nobel Prize-winning scientists? Well, if you’re Helene Langevin-Joliot, you become a world-renowned nuclear physicist. . . . Speaking at CSUN on Thursday (B4), Langevin-Joliot said with a wink, “You can’t pass down scientific ability through genetics.”
Model Fighter: Billed as “The Knockout,” 29-year-old former actress and swimsuit model Mia St. John will spend Valentine’s Day making her professional boxing debut, in Indio. . . . The Woodland Hills resident is 27-1 competing in martial arts tournaments. “I’ve always wanted to be known as a good fighter,” she said (C11).
