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Enthusiasts claim that DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) is a remedy for everything from acne to mental retardation. Critics denounce the substance as a quack cure unsupported by scientific studies. Now though, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have documented that DMSO can exert a powerful effect on the immune system, suggesting that it might one day be helpful in treating rheumatoid arthritis and other immune-system diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules: Mar. 16, 1981 | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...residents of Kulyenchikov are not just stupid. They're idiots. The fish vendor sells carnations as haddock and the doctor can't read his own eye chart. The star pupil, whom the newest teacher, Leon Tulchinsky must cure, just learned to sit down a few days ago. Sophia is 18 years old. This would be just another pointless Simon situation commedy--a collection of Amelia Bedelia jokes, as one viewer put it--if it weren't for the necessity of affirmative action...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Rated G | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...will marry him if he succeeds. But if their relationship continues on the basis of self-interest, theirs would be an eventually fading romance. In the same way, if minority education is accelerated as a pacifier of social unrest, Americans will never possess the determination which is needed to cure their curse...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Rated G | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...incompetence or sloppiness," Cronkite says. "I'm a very difficult boss. I'm also very impatient with myself. If I've dropped the ball, I start screaming and hollering at the entire production. I hate that in myself. I haven't been able to cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: The Age of Cronkite Passes | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...wall and blood is nipped and ways be foul, when the Great Lakes freeze into ice packs the size of Rhode Island and shipping is stilled, then folks in the Midwest are moved to fish through the ice, a curious, seasonal madness for which there is no known cure except spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: Rescue from an Icy Island | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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