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...Pharmaceuticals, an experimental compound with an ungainly moniker--BIRR 4--managed to cut the severity of cold symptoms in half without major side effects. The results were immediately hailed in the media as a breakthrough, although Dr. Ronald Turner, a pediatrician at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston who helped direct the research, was quick to add a dose of caveat. "We've got a ways to go," he insists, "before we can say the word cure...
...CHARLESTON, S.C.: The family of Sergio Jimenez II has won a whopping $262.5 million judgment against Chrysler over a 1985 accident in which their son was thrown clear and killed after the rear hatch in the family's Chrysler minivan opened on impact. But TIME's William McWhirter says that figure is likely to be drastically reduced on appeal. "The company has an eight lane interstate of appeals available," he says. "The boy was reportedly not wearing a seat belt or a child safety seat." Other factors includes questions about whether the boy's father caused the accident by running...
Come June 21, it was vacation time. So I hopped in the Jeep and drove down to Florida. Just south of Charleston, S.C., an officer stopped me for speeding. She claimed I was doing 110 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone; I protested, she cuffed me, I spent a couple of nights in county jail teaching inmates the basics of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action...
...wife team Kirby and Beverly Ward almost steal the show as the husband-wife comic team of Frank and Ellie who leave the show-boat for a gig in the Trocadero. And Elizabeth Mary O'Neill does steal the show, if only briefly, as Magnolia's daughter Kim: her Charleston, near the very end of the show, is a terrific eyeful with a lot of pizazz--the best-choreographed and quite possibly the best scene of the entire show...
...society is certainly in a shameful frame of collective mind when an individual must be labeled brave and courageous for simply being honest with friends, colleagues and the public. MAUREEN E. GREEN Charleston, South Carolina...