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...imagine all the seas awash with cruise ships taking us 120-year-olds to vacation hideaways. And the endless golf courses. Our old wives will have to put up with us geezer husbands chasing them around the bedroom with renewed libido. Holy cow! And I thought paradise was only a dream. I hope that the mad scientists will quit dragging their feet. I don't have time to wait. HARRY MASS Tarzana, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...Researchers reported the first direct link between MAD-COW DISEASE and a fatal brain ailment in people. Sick animals and human victims had the same biochemical patterns in their brains, further supporting the contention that eating tainted meat causes the human illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 4, 1996 | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Today, the press is so powerful that no one will take it on. It is the ultimate sacred cow. The press says that everyone has the right to the truth, that skepticism is the highest value. But none of the values of the press are applied to the press. They have not only thin skin, but no skin...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: 'This Town': Manners, Media and Politics | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

Until recently censored by the University, I wrote a weekly column called "Prank Files" for Fifteen Minutes (FM) magazine. As the name suggests, "Prank Files" was the record of prank calls I had made to various institutions at Harvard. For example, I called UHS claiming to have Mad Cow Disease from eating a Whopper; I called the Eliot superintendent and tried to get him to shut off the heater in my roommate's room because my roommate "always makes a mess and has poor circulation;" and I called the Bureau of Study Council to say I needed academic help, badly...

Author: By William L. Kirtley, | Title: The Ad Board Is Composed of Humorless Bureaucrats | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...Scientists have developed the first simple test for detecting MAD-COW DISEASE in animals and the equivalent form of the incurable disorder in humans. Until now, a diagnosis required a risky brain biopsy--or an autopsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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