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...Smith should have been able to come up with something better than a cartoony, colonial-era take on cannibalism as a metaphor for issues of survival. Listening to such painfully out-of-touch music from Smith, as well as these other pop standouts from the past, is enough to cure the worst case of nostalgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: OLDER BUT NOT WISER | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...Hippocrates' time, there were no life-prolonging devices that could reduce a dying person to little more than a houseplant. His quotation of the oath with respect to euthanasia should be compared to a doctor's admonition to use the time-honored method of bloodsucking by leeches to cure high blood pressure. JOHAN ROORYCK Leiden, the Netherlands Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1996 | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...approved a pair of drugs to HELP CURE ULCERS, not just treat symptoms. An antibiotic taken with an antacid kills off the bacteria implicated in causing most ulcers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 29, 1996 | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...made note of a California physician's study concluding that external-beam radiation therapy cures only 20% to 25% of patients. But other studies show much better results. Several investigators around the country in very reputable radiation-oncology departments have shown that cure rates with external-beam radiation therapy are 40% to 60% of all patients and 80% to 90% of patients who are considered to be surgical candidates. The later cure rates are the same as those for patients who undergo radical prostatectomy, or excision of the prostate gland. We implore your readers to investigate all available treatment options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1996 | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...Father's kingdom, as traditionally understood, than with bucking what the ex-priest has called "the standard political normalcies of power and privilege, hierarchy and oppression, debt foreclosure and land appropriation, imperial exploitation and colonial collaboration." This Tom Joad-ish Christ did not so much heal illnesses as cure false consciousness; his body was eaten by dogs at the foot of the Cross. Crossan has summarized his message as "God says, 'Caesar sucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOSPEL TRUTH? | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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