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Such difficulties are not surprising. "These pills are made from kidney-bean extract," explains Dr. Victor Herbert, chief of the hematology and nutrition laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Block Those Starch Blockers | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

Schlafly and her supporters celebrated at a balloon-festooned Over-the-Rainbow party, where the 1,400 guests pledged allegiance to the flag and listened to some 30 victory speeches. Said Conservative Digest Editor John Lofton: "I salute you fellows for doing to the ERA what Menachem Begin is doing to the P.L.O." And they applauded "special service" awards given to outstanding ERA opponents, among them the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Under Secretary of State James Buckley and Senator Jesse Helms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Killed Equal Rights? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...happy about Haig's resignation? John Lofton, editor of something called the Conservative Digest, was asked the question that very night on ABC's Nightline. "For about a minute and eight seconds," Lofton replied- meaning, until he heard the name of Haig's successor. Once again, to a mind like Lofton's, Ronald Reagan was proving himself insufficiently Reaganite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Muted Thunder on the Right | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...Dave [Harvard squash Coach Dave Fish] looked at me," Robie remembers, "changed my swing, and taught me what seemed like a million and two things about squash. After throwing the kitchen sink at me, he let me digest it, and four years later, I started playing great squash...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: Some Senior Athletes... ...Who'll Be Missed | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...will rise up as they did in 1945 and rid themselves of whichever dictator happens to be in power. Then the United States, rightly perceived as the ally of repression, will lose another potential friend to the Soviet camp. The bitter fruit of 1954 is already tough enough to digest. Imagine the revulsion if that fruit, a product of narrow-minded. cruel policy, turns rotten...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: The Fruit of Callousness | 5/4/1982 | See Source »

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