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...named Miles and then, after its near death experience, turn it back into what its owner describes as a "fully functional dog"? Are we expected to accept on faith that a SMART DRUG called centrophenoxine is an "intelligence booster" that provides "effective anti-aging therapy," or that another compound called hydergine increases mental abilities and prevents damage to brain cells? "All of this has some basis in today's technologies," says Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future. "But it has a very anticipatory quality. These are people who assume that they will shape the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberpunk! | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Sherr' found that one PAH compound, benzopyrene, causes programmed cell death of B cells through interactions with a DNA-binding protein. This cell death could be related to the pollutants' ability to cause cancer at higher levels, the pathologist said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pollutants Damage Immune System | 2/3/1993 | See Source »

...group of Harvard scientists has located a compound present a large amounts in cancerous cells which may enable earlier detection of breast cancer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop Toward Earlier Breast Cancer Detection | 2/3/1993 | See Source »

...test for the presence of the compound may allow doctors to spot and treat patients in the early stages. By implicating a compound important in cell division, the group may have uncovered a central culprit in causing cancer, which is characterized by the unregulated and rapid proliferation of cells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop Toward Earlier Breast Cancer Detection | 2/3/1993 | See Source »

...reception was no friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Fire | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

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