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Body Bronze's equipment is the most up-to-date available, Scott says, and shoots out the lowest percentage of the harmful beta waves possible, one-tenth of one percent. Tanorama claims to be the latest also, but its percentage of harmful beta waves is considerably higher, 2.8 percent...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Sun in the Square Isn't Just for Summer | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

...years as an alternative to surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Immunotherapy enhances the immune system's disease-fighting capabilities by using some of the body's own chemical agents -- the interferons, tumor-necrosis factor or interleukins, for example. Last year, in one of immunotherapy's most promising clinical trials to date, Rosenberg's team used the hormone-like substance interleukin-2 to turn certain white blood cells into cancer destroyers called lymphokine- activated killers. Reinjected into the bloodstream with more IL-2, LAK cells shrank or eliminated tumors in several patients. As news of the experiment spread, desperate cancer victims around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Weapon in the Cancer War? | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...first outing on the Great White Way is now the longest-running musical in Broadway history (eleven years) and has grossed $242 million to date. So who can blame Composer Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line), 42, if his latest project sounds the least little bit as if it could be called A Beauty Pageant? Actually titled Smile and loosely based on the 1975 film of that name, the show chronicles three days of competition and camaraderie among a group of high school contestants in a California beauty pageant. Some 3,000 girls auditioned for the 16 roles in the musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1986 | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Africa and met with businessmen and antiapartheid political leaders, seemed totally bewildered by the antagonisms she found. Conceding at a news conference that the political situation was "more complex than I initially thought," she said she needed "more substantive and more complete information" before meeting Botha at some future date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa into the Racial Maelstrom | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...contributed $250,000 and agreed to keep a personal interest in the progress of "their" students. Now Lang is attempting to go national with his inspiration through "I Have a Dream," a New York City-based foundation he has established to help other communities set up similar programs. To date, he says, 20 cities in addition to Dallas, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami, are either organizing a program or planning one. Says Lang: "For the first time you realize how the wings of an idea can spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spreading the Wings of an Idea | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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