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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advantages," the 73-year-old Kansan said, suggesting that, at the dawn of the new century, the cure to the nation's moral and social problems was a return to the values of his modest prairie upbringing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dole Accepts Nomination At Convention | 8/16/1996 | See Source »

This eerie moment forms the emotional and intellectual hinge of Rafael Yglesias' eighth novel, Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil (Warner Books; 694 pages; $24.95). Unfortunately, it occurs 465 pages into the narrative, well past the halfway mark but nowhere near the end of a long, long reading haul. Psychoanalysis, the so-called talking cure, has rarely, if ever, received a talkier fictional presentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...some renegade rebels from overseas. These people are beyond control. They may have some token demands, but above all, they are about irrational hate. We can incarcerate them, prosecute them, bomb their native country, and we accomplish nothing. We can attack the symptoms, perhaps, but we have no cure for the disease...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: A Postmortem on the TWA Crash | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

Irritating. Endlessly irritating. The increasingly unintelligible, high-pitched whine of these wretched bugs cavorting in toilets and a jock strap is enough to cure anyone complaining of sanity. Sure, a barber shop quartet starring disease-carrying vermin rates high on anyone's cuteness scale, but after a funk number, or a gospel number, or the film's opening chorus...one just wants to crawl under a carpet and take a quiet...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: MTV Flick Grows Old Quick | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision to block an FDA plan to make more complete drug information available. "The nation spends as much to cure the illnesses caused by prescription drugs as we spend on the drugs themselves," said Senator Edward Kennedy, who is fighting to preserve the FDA initiative. Fewer than half of those using prescription medicines know much more than how often the average person should take them, according to the American Pharmaceutical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Patient Beware | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

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