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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patient may be obliged to assume this responsibility, says Pepper, because "there is no other area of medicine with so great a gap between daily practice and the theoretical possibility of available treatment." Many doctors who do not specialize in cancer fail to keep up with the latest treatment strategies and often lack the connections needed for speedy referral to a cancer center. Some subscribe to the principle "let them die in peace," thus discouraging patients from seeking care that may prolong their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survivors | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...should, on a multilateral basis if possible, seek through dialogue, publicity, and other means to bring about the elimination of such involvement. Harvard should in cooperation with others if possible, develop specific principles defining the types of direct support for apartheid that should be eliminated. If portfolio companies fail to achieve substantial compliance with such principles within three years. Harvard should call on such companies to withdraw from South Africa. If they refuse to do so, Harvard should divest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACSR Statement | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

...Port Stanley stand empty because it will take as long as six months to hook them up to drains and water. Says the project's British manager: "You're up against a wall with the bureaucracy here. If you succeed, you're an embarrassment. If you fail, it's 'We told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: The High Price of Principle | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...Clements termed nonanemic ferritin deficiency? A former college running teammate of Dellinger's, Clements has theorized that ferritin, an iron complex stored mainly in the bone marrow, is used or discharged by endurance runners faster than it is replaced. The consequences, says Clements, are that "a runner would fail to improve with training." Tests on Salazar showed a low level of ferritin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Salazar's Marathon Ordeal | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...attempt to show Bligh, not Christian, as the liberal spirit, an ambitious, intelligent, even sensitive representative of the rising middle class, uncomfortably matched with the demands of a position that required an aristocratic blindness to humane concerns. Bligh is seen losing control of self and ship when his men fail to respond to considerate treatment. The situation worsens when he prudishly disapproves of their licentiousness during their months ashore on the sybaritic island, grows desperate as he attempts to reassert harsh discipline once the ship sets sail again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Becalms a Legend Most? | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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