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Elizabeth Clear, a 64-year-old housewife, had long been a 30-a-day smoker. But it still came as a shock when doctors running tests for a hiatus hernia at London's Whittington Hospital found something much more serious - lung cancer. And when consultant Siow Ming Lee proposed enrolling her in a trial using thalidomide to treat the disease, she got an even bigger shock. "That was the drug that damaged the children, wasn't it?" she asked. Despite her initial misgivings, she's now pleased she was given thalidomide - her cancer has been in remission for nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Drug Makes Good | 1/26/2003 | See Source »

When the state failed to deliver, the tribe reopened the casino in June. Enter the Department of Justice, which sued to close the operation down. The tribe, reluctant to end its one moneymaking venture, refused. A federal judge imposed a $3,000-a-day levy, then upped it to $6,000. In no time, the tribe owed more than $1 million. Meanwhile, the Justice Department began seizing the tribe's bank accounts, including those containing funds earmarked for child safety seats and nutrition programs for the elderly. It even took money out of individual Indians' accounts. Says Thomas: "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indian Casinos: Playing The Political Slots | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

Posen has put together three seasons' worth of feminine, flirty, busily constructed clothes. He did this while still living withhis parents and drawing a $15-a-day allowance. And yet all fashion indices point to him as the Next Big Thing in Frocks. Magazines have written worshipfully about him. Manolo Blahnik collaborates with him on shoes. Posen's shows feature A-list models like Naomi Campbell, whom he pays in clothes. And during last week's Fashion Week, when all the most influential sheiks of chic were in Manhattan, Bloomingdale's devoted a row of windows to his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: BOY IN VOGUE | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...Ellis, my 75-year-old sister, left Boston and flew out to Columbus, Ohio, and got a $50-a-day room and worked to get out the vote. I called the other day and was told, 'She's in the middle of something.' I said just tell her that her brother called. It's these kinds of little things that finally mean so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: A Dad Reflects On His Family | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Ellis, my 75-year-old sister, left Boston and flew out to Columbus, Ohio, and got a $50-a-day room and worked to get out the vote. I called the other day and was told, ?She's in the middle of something.' I said just tell her that her brother called. It's these kinds of little things that finally mean so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dad Reflects on His Family | 11/11/2000 | See Source »

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