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...Manhattan Beach, Calif., "we are finding that the consumer is more interested than the medical market." The tapes are made to glance at, to distract, not to watch. Sitting down for a serious look at Video Fish One ($39.95 retail), which is a close-up study of an aquarium, may lead to such insidious side effects as glazed eyes and numbed gray cells. It probably looks better from a dentist's chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fine Tunings | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...asked Daniel Moynihan. At one hearing, the Senator from New York drolly asked Hite if the number of people going down in the Pit equaled the number of people coming up. Some joked that the Pit should be turned into a swimming pool or a national aquarium to take advantage of the leaky roof. Virtually ignored by tourists, the Pit closed after two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington, D.C.: Last Stop for Union Station | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John Grossman of Washington, D.C.: "Everything from the full moon to poultices has met with failure. If enough people have the problem, ultimately someone will relate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Snake Venom and Earwax | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...away your English. Japanese dictionary. And that raw fish you planned on may just have to come out of your aquarium Because the Harvard football team is not going to Japan to play in the Mirage Bowl next season...

Author: By Micheal J. Rev, | Title: Tokyo Trip Off For Gridders | 2/3/1982 | See Source »

Dunn recently went beyond his depth, though, while trying to help a 7-ft.-long shark at San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium. The shark, a creature of the lightless deep, was in pain near the surface. Dunn tried a pair of colored contacts that did not help, and the fish died between fittings. But Dunn still has the lenses and is hoping to find another shark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eye Contact | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

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