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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first signs of neurofibromatosis usually appear in childhood: small, brown skin discolorations known as café au lait spots. Later, neurofibromas-ugly but benign skin tumors that can grow to look like brown cauliflower-may form anywhere on the body, particularly on the back, chest and abdomen. In severe cases, the body is eventually covered by thousands of these tumors. Some may develop internally, attaching to the brain's acoustic or optic nerves and other vital tissues. Another, rarer manifestation of the disease is "elephant skin," large hanging folds of epidermis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Elephant Man | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...Vagabond Missionaries played small-club dates, scored big in a local battle of the bands, eventually put their amps in shopping carts and carried them aboard the ferry, sailing for the big time. They got a gig at the Café Wha?, then soon went their separate ways. Johansen was the only one who never looked back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Burning Down the Dollhouse | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...consensus was that Carter might be all right, but many of those people around him were just no good. The shop man said that he would never again vote for a man who did not have experience with Congress. Around the tables ni the back of the Ideal Café there were silent nods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The View from the Ideal Caf | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...team. But what was really bothersome, said bill, was why Carter had not fired those men earlier. Why did somebody else have to tell Carter to fire his Cabinet, and who was that somebody-Hamilton Jordon? For a moment in the Ideal café it seemed as thought Machiavelli had met his equals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The View from the Ideal Caf | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Although visitors will eat most meals in their hotels, 150 restaurants, cafés and snack bars are being built near the Olympic sites and on main thoroughfares. The new eateries will serve European food, Soviet regional specialties and such national favorites as blini (pan cakes), borscht (beet soup with sour cream) and pelmeni (stuffed dumplings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Warming Up for the 1980 Olympics | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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