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...liposomes to stay in the blood long enough to do their job has been difficult until now. Researchers seem to have solved the problem by changing the surface chemistry of liposomes so that they can circulate for longer periods. Says UCSF Pharmacologist Demetrios Papahadjopoulos: "It's an entirely new beast. We beat the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Just What the Doctor Ordered | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...June, Christopher Davis was set upon by a 7-ft.-tall scaly lizard with glowing red eyes. As Davis tells it, he jumped into his Toyota just as the creature's claws grabbed the door handle. Swerving left and right, the 17-year-old boy managed to shake the beast off. He shared his story with a few friends in nearby Bishopville. Then last month Mary Way reported that her Ford LTD was scratched and clawed near the swamp. Sheriff's deputies initially tied the two events together -- and Lizard Man was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Carolina: The Legend of Lizard Man | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...Lyric Stage's Presentation of Beauty goes up this weekend at 54 Charles St., in Boston. a twisted musical version of the traditional Beauty and the Beast legend, David Elliott and Barbara Phanuef's production is sure to draw large crowds for the modern version of the ancient fairy tale. Tickets are $12-$15. Telephone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

Cheng Feng, a strategic-affairs expert at BIISS, offers similar reassurances. "You Americans seem to think that Sino-Soviet normalization would be a kind of hell for you, that it's a terrible beast lurking out there in the future," he says. "You shouldn't worry. We've had several hundred years' experience with the Russians. You can rest assured that we will be realistic in our dealing with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Swords into Sample Cases | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Interestingly, there does exist an animal called the giant rat of Sumatra, just as there does exist a beast called racism. Those facts (that the creatures actually exist) have nothing to do, however, with the art of telling horror stories and lies. That skill has its earliest development in the imagination of children, standing in front of angry parents and frantically inventing alibis. Sometimes children are brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Tawana And Her Three Wise Men | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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