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...need for such an exorcism must have been felt by the anonymous U.S. Marine who, shortly after Kuwait City's liberation, paid a call on the deserted American embassy. He carried with him an old American flag, which he left at the gate of the embassy compound. Asked why by an Associated Press reporter, the Marine said the flag had been given to him 23 years earlier by a dying comrade in Vietnam. For the Marine in Kuwait City, and for many Americans who took justified pride in the U.S.'s military performance in the gulf, a circle had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Front: Exorcising an Old Demon | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

Extending this hypothesis, Michaelson began experiments on the liver cells of laboratory rats. Using flourescence microscopy, in which a chemical compound is "tagged" by a flourescent molecule, he showed that different liver cells, or hepatocytes, produced different proteins...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Organic Cells Compete for Survival, Too | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...says the turnover will compound the departmental friction which presently plagues the force...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Police Commissioner To Face Tough Tasks | 2/27/1991 | See Source »

Ingber, along with Folkman and their associates, sent the corrupted sample to Japan, where chemists grew the fungus in huge 10,000-liter vats in order to extract the potent compound. The Japanese found the active, capillary-suppressing agent to be the rare fungus fumagillin...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: No Cure Yet, But Success at an Early Stage | 2/14/1991 | See Source »

With his gold jewelry, corporate jet, Beverly Hills compound and walkie- talkie-toting bodyguards, Kassar is the picture of Hollywood happiness. The industry's overpaid stars love him. But the 39-year-old chairman of Carolco Pictures, the father of the lucrative Rambo series, is coming under fire from investors for squandering money on his films and himself. And major studio bosses claim that his extravagance is hurting the business. For Sylvester Stallone's role in Rambo III, Kassar handed the star $16 million, more than the entire budget of First Blood, the series' opener. The cumbrous Arnold Schwarzenegger raked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You're Going to Do a Party, Do It Right! | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

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