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Research into brain chemistry is progressing so quickly that doctors in the frustrating field of schizophrenia finally have reason to be optimistic. "We can do for schizophrenia what we've done for so many major illnesses," insists Dr. Samuel Keith, head of NIMH's National Schizophrenic Plan. "We can dissect and demystify it. Then we can defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awakenings : Schizophrenia: A New Drug Brings Patients Back to Life | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...1970s, "regrettable indeed." For Miyazawa, whose government recently suffered legislative setbacks, the case resurrects memories that he and his party would rather keep buried. Along with other leading officials, he resigned three years ago during a notorious bribery affair involving the Recruit information-services empire. Opposition parties plan to dissect the latest mess amid news reports of more ruling-party misdeeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: A Scandal by Any Name | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...funding has soared in the last few years,and at the larger research centers--Harvard amongthem--money just isn't the problem, Fein says. It"isn't a lack of research funding, it's that [AIDSis] an incredibly hard problem to dissect," hesays...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: Joining Fields to Fight a Crisis | 10/5/1990 | See Source »

...real Harvard, as you will quickly discover, is infested with Harvard students. About 6400 of them. All of whom have had their egos stroked by adoring parents and teachers since the third grade. Many of them would cheerfully dissect you in your sleep if they thought it would boost their chances of getting into medical school...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: . . .and More Than You Bargained for | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...tools at hand seem minimal for the task. Says Jaime Chavez, an international banking consultant: "The people who will probably be searching for it have a very limited knowledge of what money movement is all about. How is a third-rate employee of the Justice Department going to dissect the entire financial system to pinpoint the drug money correctly?" During the Reagan years, the budgets of agencies in charge of ctaching financial cheats failed to keep pace with the changing world of money manipulation. Even IRS agents are largely unprepared for the task of tracking transactions that can involve four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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