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Another wise investment: devote more research to finding out which procedures and drugs are most effective. If doctors can be supplied with better, consensual guidelines about what works in treating various ailments, they will feel less pressure to do things on a just-in-case basis. They also will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Health Care Condition: Critical | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

Perhaps we should not place our sports heroes on pedestals, but we do. And with the possible exception of Michael Jordan, who announced last week that he also plans to devote himself to the anti-AIDS campaign, none of our sports heroes occupies a loftier pedestal than Magic. His unblemished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chance to Work Magic | 11/13/1991 | See Source »

The businessman may lament losing contact with an illegitimate son he may have had by still another woman. Equally, he may have concocted this story just to dissuade his second wife from having an abortion. The man seemingly believes that on safari he once faced down a charging lion, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arthur Miller, Old Hat at Home, Is a London Hit | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

"Nothing can replace a grassroots approach to campaigning," Walsh said. Despite the comfortable operating budgets of candidates like him and Duehay, or the considerably stricter financial restraints of candidates like Alfred E. Vellucci, most candidates devote much of their energy to good, old-fashioned door knocking and time-proven letter...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: How Much Does It Cost to Win a City Council Seat? | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

American parents are rightly worried about their kids' leisure life, built around Saturday-morning cartoons and Nintendo. There are 36 million children in the U.S. ages 2 to 11; they watch an average of 24 hours of TV a week and devote less and less energy to active recreation. Nationwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old-Fashioned Play -- for Pay | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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