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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything but common sense and fills life's emptiness with a riot of ugly possessions. Her son Cyril (Philip Davis) has gone the opposite route. He is a leftover leftist who cannot abandon the habit of Marxist analysis but is unable to believe any longer in its power to effect change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Fable for Postmoderns | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...effect a cure, doctors would remove bone-marrow cells from a patient and expose them to a retrovirus* engineered to carry correctly functioning versions of the patient's faulty gene. When the retrovirus invaded a marrow cell, it would insert itself into the cellular DNA, as retroviruses are wont to do, carrying the good gene with it. Reimplanted in the marrow, the altered marrow cells would take hold and multiply, churning out the previously lacking protein and curing the thalassemia patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Gene Hunt | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...willing to accept lower interest payment on an existing loan -- 6% a year, say, as opposed to 10% -- if assured that all interest payments would be made on time. In recent years, many strapped Latin debtors have repeatedly made late interest payments. This has an immediate and painful effect on the creditor bank, since it lowers its quarterly earnings. Under the new plan, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank would insure that interest payments are made on time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enter The Brady Plan | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Officials also discussed changes in bus routes that could go into effect as early as next year...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: Plans for `Circumferential' Subway Line Link Red, Orange, Green Lines in City | 3/14/1989 | See Source »

...unclear whether the decision will have a broader effect on Catholic higher education in the U.S. Curran thinks it might, "given the current atmosphere" of John Paul's campaign to clamp down on errant theology teachers in seminaries and universities. But Sister Alice Gallin of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, emphasizes Catholic University's unusual status and expects no spillover effect. She adds, however, that the case is "a warning that faculties must protect academic freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope Wins in Court | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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