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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet evening just before New Year's, Dwyane Carson and his friend Arthur DeWitt, both 9, were playing in Dwyane's Northeast Houston home, when they found a loaded .22-cal. rifle in the youngster's bedroom closet. Dwyane's father, a hunting enthusiast, had never shown the boy how to handle firearms. Toying with the rifle, Dwyane accidentally shot and killed Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston Gunplay: A string of accidental shootings | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...major malfunction" was, he said, "the understatement of the year." CBS's Rather appeared shakiest in the early going, and his network was the slowest to marshal its resources. "What you have here," said Rather at one point, "is a reporter vamping for time." (CBS's most famous space enthusiast, Walter Cronkite, was vacationing abroad when the accident occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Covering the Awful Unexpected | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...antibodies in the filter could leach out into the blood and cause allergic reactions. Many believe the inconvenience and expense of the procedure will limit its applicability. Dr. Antonio Gotto, a leading lipid researcher, estimates that a year of weekly treatments would cost $40,000. Even an LDL-pheresis enthusiast like Chazov agrees that it is not "a means of mass treatment for atherosclerosis." For that, he says, one must turn not to miraculous medical intervention, but to good, old-fashioned prevention, however boring: "We must talk about diets with lower cholesterol, exercise, control of blood pressure, and antismoking campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Filtering Out Killer Cholesterol | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Friends recalled the French enthusiast and Romance Languages Ph.D. candidate as someone who always had time to care and who liked to see other people enjoy themselves. Some of his friends spoke, some read poetry, some sang, and some played the piano and violin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House Friends Remember Former Tutor | 10/22/1985 | See Source »

Borodin recalls Shevardnadze as an obsessive worker who often spent 14 hours a day at his office. A fitness enthusiast and jogger, Shevardnadze installed an exercise room and a sauna in his home and threatened to fire overweight officials unless they got into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eduard Shevardnadze | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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