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...Kathleen Melvin, a secretary, said the BostonScleral Lens has changed her life...

Author: By Vivek Jain, | Title: New Contact Lens Invented | 4/27/1994 | See Source »

...giant Philip Morris discovered the first strong evidence that nicotine is addictive but suppressed the study. Waxman has called the top brass from Philip Morris and six other cigarette firms to testify before his subcommittee about their practices in hearings this week that promise to attract widespread attention. Attorney Melvin Belli is leading a coalition of high-profile lawyers that has filed a $5 billion class-action suit on behalf of everyone who has ever been addicted to nicotine. Said Belli: "We will prove that the tobacco industry has conspired to catch you, hold you and kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoking: The Butt Stops Here | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...fled south to the Florida Bible Institute, where he could play golf and go canoeing and court a pretty classmate named Emily Cavanaugh. Her decision to break off their engagement hit Billy hard. "She wanted to marry a man who was going to amount to something," Graham's brother Melvin told Martin. The disappointment planted in Graham a determination to prove her wrong; it ripened alongside his commitment to discerning, and obeying, God's will. He would practice sermons aloud in old sheds or in a canoe in the middle of a lake. He ate a quarter- pound of butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God's Billy Pulpit | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...talking stars work hard to rob children of innocence, the sexually abusive parent, guardian or family friend is not only a predator in his own right but also a stand-in for all the gaudy malevolence of pop culture. "There's a social hysteria about child abuse," says Professor Melvin Guyer, a psychologist and lawyer who teaches at the University of Michigan. "It began with the McMartin Pre-School case and continued with Woody Allen. There has been a feeding frenzy, in which the ordinary presumptions of innocence are not applied. The allegations are treated as evidence." And the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson: Who's Bad? | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

Every so often, on the streets of big cities, you'll see a sidewalk salesman selling records. Ancient 33s from the '60s and '70s, all laid out in a row. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Marvin Gaye. Earth, Wind and Fire. Sounds from a softer, more soulful era, now on display as curiosities. In an era of DATs and New Jacks, such scenes have a poignant, out-of-touch, Willy Loman quality to them. You amble by and perhaps turn up the volume on your Sony Discman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Scene, Summer '93 | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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