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...confirm that the drug was indeed effective, Drazen and Israel tested over 100 patients who suffered from asthma over a four-week period...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: New Drug for Asthma Patients Discovered by Med School Team | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

Better yet, watch Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) face a similar problem in To Play the King, a wickedly entertaining BBC mini-series that has just debuted on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre for a four-week run. Urquhart, the Machiavellian party hack who schemed his way to the prime ministry in the 1990 mini-series House of Cards, is now ensconced in power but facing an unexpected challenge from the newly crowned King of England. The politically naive but idealistic monarch (modeled loosely on Prince Charles) has taken to delivering feisty, compassionate speeches about the poor and staging canny photo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For King and Country | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...United Mine Workers expanded its four-week old strike against coal producers last week, bringing to 9,200 the number of miners who have stopped work -- a far cry from the 1950 walkout when 370,000 striking U.M.W. members crippled the nation's industries. As the chart below indicates, few strikes of any kind occur anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vanishing Strike | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

During the four-week trial, Demjanjuk acknowledged lying on his immigration papers, saying that he was in the Red Army and had been taken prisoner by the Nazis. The alibi seemed shaky to the court, and he was stripped of his citizenship...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Who Is Ivan the Terrible? | 2/5/1993 | See Source »

About 40% to 45% of the estimated 500 million pounds of perc produced annually is used by cleaners. In an effort to reduce exposure to perc, the Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with trade groups, has launched a four-week test of a new cleaning method that eschews all chemical solvent and depends instead on biodegradable soaps along with heat, steam and pressing. The experiment uses clothing volunteered by government employees in Washington and New York City. First up was EPA chief William Reilly, who turned over his regulation blue suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaner Dry Cleaners | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

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