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...ended the first drug crisis in the U.S. In less than a generation, public attitudes had been transformed. Once widely regarded as a harmless cure-all, cocaine "had become in the American mind the most hated, feared and loathed drug," says Dr. David Musto of Yale, a leading authority on the history of drugs and society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Crusade | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...striking symbolism of their company's bankruptcy filing. Here was the clan that embodied all that was bold, brash and rich about the American oil patch. Yet today, like many a lone Texas wildcatter, the Hunt brothers are hurting -- and not even the hugest gusher can provide a cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down to Their Last Billion? | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...could be done without infringing on the rights of the individual, then it might work," says Miami Dolphins Quarterback Dan Marino. "But I think there has to be a lot more research done in this area before we can come out and say | random mandatory drug testing is the cure." Eugene ("Mercury") Morris, a former star running back with the Miami Dolphins who was recently released from prison after serving three years on a drug conviction, says singling out athletes for drug tests is an unfair double standard. "I'd be more concerned about a coked-up surgeon operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoring Off the Field | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...crude version of the police stun gun, a weapon more commonly employed to subdue emotionally disturbed suspects. He says that lives have also been saved by tapping power from the outboard motor of a canoe. Though snakebite experts say Guderian's treatment defies explanation, as word of his shocking cure has spread, pilots, missionaries and mining-company employees have begun carrying stun guns into the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shock Cure? | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...more space shuttle will not meet the challenge. For the moment, America has lost its nerve and its vision from the top down. What we do in space now is just as important as the Panama Canal, the atom bomb, the cure for polio, the trip to the moon. The most frightening deficit is in boldness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lost in Space | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

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