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More than simply a medical story, herpes, the venereal disease for which there is no cure to date, is a subject of staggering dimensions. Its spread throughout the U.S. is a serious, wholly unanticipated consequence of the sexual revolution. The extent to which this so-called social disease has infected, in many more ways than are obvious, the life of a growing number of Americans became apparent when TIME'S bureaus were asked to make an initial assessment of the importance of the story...
...herpes virus perplexes researchers and defies a cure...
...diet-conscious America, when one fad falls, the next amazing shrinking cure is always on its way. And at Procter & Gamble right now they are talking about a new substance that can create a creamy-rich milkshake or a buttery spread that is not the least bit fattening. It is a zero-calorie dead ringer for dietary fat called sucrose polyester (SPE), and last week researchers at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center reported SPE's first successful test. The compound contains eight fatty acids instead of the three that make up ordinary fats. As a result, digestive enzymes...
Some board members regarded the prolongation of the recession as the painful price of wringing inflation out of the system. Others, like Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president for Crédit Suisse, feared that the deflationary cure has become too dangerous. He noted that trade protectionism is growing and that there is also the risk of an international financial squeeze that could dry up bank lending. It was time, said Mast, "to go on the economic offensive" against present policies...
...Angeles busing plan ordered by a state court, not one adopted voluntarily as in Seattle. A 1979 antibusing referendum amended the state constitution to make it tougher for plaintiffs to win mandatory busing orders. California's constitution had required state judges to impose busing when necessary to cure school segregation even if it resulted from housing patterns that developed without any official intent to segregate. Federal law requires proof of official intent. When they approved Proposition 1, Californians essentially embraced the looser federal standard. By an 8-to-l vote, the Justices upheld that action. Wrote Justice Lewis Powell...