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...Milwaukee case, Ernest Lacy was helping his cousin paint an apartment on July 9 when he took a break and headed for a nearby market to get a snack. As he walked along Wisconsin Avenue, Lacy encountered three Milwaukee patrolmen, burly members of the department's tactical squad who were looking for a suspect in a rape that had just occurred in the neighborhood. They tried to subdue Lacy whose mental disorders had included acute schizophrenia. According to some witnesses, Lacy was pinned to the street; one patrolman reportedly placed his knee against Lacy's neck, handcuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Accidents or Police Brutality? | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Though the plot centers entirely on Ethan (Jamie Hanes), his wife Zeena (Nela Wagman) and his beautiful young cousin Mattie (Jeannie Affelder), a swarm of extras descends for an occasional church social or village scene, relieving a set done entirely in shades of gray...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Breaks From Tradition | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...this, some kind of joke,' because I hadn't signed up for co-ed softball. But then I looked in the face-book, and there was a picture of Aamir Zakaria. I finally met him at the ice-cream bash--It turns out that he's my first cousin. I never knew he was coming to Harvard--I'd never even...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Welcome to Camp Harvard | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

...news was expected: talks had been under way for several months between Des Moines Board Chairman David Kruidenier, 60, and his Minneapolis cousin John Cowles Jr., 52. Both companies have suffered financial declines recently. In Minneapolis, operating earnings slid from $6 million in 1979 to $3.7 million a year later, largely because of a 27-day newspaper strike and continuing losses from its latest acquisition, the Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier-Express (circ. 131,990). The smaller Des Moines company saw its earnings drop from $3.6 million in 1979 to $2.6 million in 1980, in part, because of the troubled evening Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Family Affair | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Though they are made to mimic the appearance of the more expensive amphetamines, look-alike drugs contain no federally controlled substances (i.e., with a high potential of dangerous abuse). Their primary ingredients are caffeine, a stimulant; ephedrine, a vascular constrictor; and phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a chemical cousin of amphetamines. The danger lies not in the kinds of chemicals they contain but in the amount. Whereas the average diet-aid capsule may contain about 50 mg of PPA and between 100 mg and 200 mg of caffeine, a look-alike capsule can carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Look-Alikes: a New Drug Danger | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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