European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 12, 1993 i too faces a places i the stars and stripes a Page 11 Omner sitting it out Michae Jackson performs from an ornate wheelchair during the soul train music awards show in los Angeles on tuesday As dancers move around him. Jackson had been scheduled to dance in the show but sprained his right ankle during a rehearsal monday. He also won two awards on the show. From wire reports with eyes Bright As new ideas and with a Slouch that failed to camouflage his intellectual swagger the Nobel laureate James d. Watson made one of his annual High school visits tuesday to explain his belief that a few things Are Worth knowing and a lot of tilings Arentt. While giving a nod to the Benefit to a Well rounded education he warned that excessive efforts to learn eve a Rythma get in the Way of mastering anything. Earn to much a a you a just delude yourself Watson told the students in an honors biology course at Sidwell friends school a private school in Washington . A focus a the biologist added. A concentrate. The most important thing f Learned in graduate school was from a professor who told me most of the work being done by the faculty was  still he said even if just one teacher in four offered intellectual excitement that one a makes it Worth getting up in the  Quot go to a College where you la be really challenged Quot he said a it does no to pay to play it  and cop to wed Marlee Matlin is engaged to a police officer. The Oscar winning Star of children of a lesser god and her fianc6, 28-year-old Kevin Grandalski share More than love both wanted to be police officers and studied criminal Justice in College. But Matlin switched to acting after finding out her deafness would have limited her to a desk Job. _ Grandalski who Learned sign language in College has been living with Matlin since october. They met a year earlier on a los Angeles Street Corner where he was directing traffic and she was filming her Abc to series reasonable doubts in which she plays a prosecutor. A fall wedding is planned. Matlin said in the latest Issue of people Magazine that she wants a was Many children As my uterus can  Falls just pick it up a daily workout regimen paid off for an 18-year-old High school student after his 1974 Camaro slipped off its Jack and fell on his head. Lance Meyer a senior at Hortonville High school in Appleton wis., was Able to lift the 3,000-Pound car off his head and escape with 350 stitches to show for his feat. Meyer a 6-foot, 145-Pound former High school wrestler said the car Tore his ear missed his left Eye by less than a Quarter of an Inch and shattered his glasses sending Glass fragments into his eyes. Meyer was outside of his girlfriends Home when the Accident occurred. He had crawled under his car to Check a Loose Bolt when the Jack slipped. Meyer said he saw the car falling so he turned his Nead away. The vehicle still smashed into the left Side of his face. A plastic surgeon at Appleton medical Center about 30 Miles Southwest of Green Bay sewed up his ear and reattached the skin around his Eye. Meyer was Back in school monday. He said his arms were a a Little bit  lends a hand now appearing in concert at the state University of new York Billy Joel a piano. The Glossy Black 9-foot concert grand piano is a donation from Joel to replace one of three pianos destroyed last month when a water main burst and flooded the University a Staller Center for the arts with water and mud. The piano built for Joel by the Baldwin piano amp Organ co. In 1991, was to be moved this week from the living room of the singers Long Island Home to the University a educational communications Center in Stony Brook. It will remain there until the Staller Center is fully restored. A i feel that it is Vicy important to support piano study As Well As classical concert performance Joel said in a statement. A it is especially meaningful for me to support this Effort Here on Long  the feb 21 water main break caused an estimated $3 million in damage to the Staller Center damaging a rare pipe Organ valued at $500,000 so much that it will have to be dismantled and shipped to its builder in new Hampshire for repairs. A Stony Brook is especially grateful to Billy Joel who immediately recognized the seriousness of our loss and made this very generous gift a said University president John 11. Marburger. Myron Martin director of concerts and artists for Baldwin said a custom built concert grand piano re tails for about $50,000, but that Joel s is Worth More. A after All it is Billy Joel a piano so its hard to say exactly what its Worth a Martin said. A that s quite a gift he s giving to Stony  chans National bestseller Only $5.99 each is v m m m War a a Vsnow on sate at mos stars and stripes is Sib o o k s to r e is Quot All around the town Quot has been at the top of the charts for More than a month. In Clark s latest the mistress of suspense tells a tale of multiple personalities obsession and murder. A Navel Dar Altna a Bronio Peiton inc at a Tibuni 9 machine a u Tut pen not a Tan be hit. Love u bestselling author Michael Crichton turns out a suspense filled novel about International intrigue and murder in which the japanese saying a business is War Quot becomes a reality