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Though they are made to mimic the appearance of the more expensive amphetamines, look-alike drugs contain no federally controlled substances (i.e., with a high potential of dangerous abuse). Their primary ingredients are caffeine, a stimulant; ephedrine, a vascular constrictor; and phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a chemical cousin of amphetamines. The danger lies not in the kinds of chemicals they contain but in the amount. Whereas the average diet-aid capsule may contain about 50 mg of PPA and between 100 mg and 200 mg of caffeine, a look-alike capsule can carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Look-Alikes: a New Drug Danger | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Confecting an English accent was easy for her; "I think of myself as a great mimic." Classical training also helped, "primarily in getting me used to wearing a corset for hours at a time." Playing Sarah posed problems "because the reasons for her actions were so vague. I knew only that she was 'ambitious.' And because so much was covered up during Victorian times, I had to come on as though there was a fire inside, while remaining outwardly calm. I had, as the English say, to be careful about not going over the top. I played the monologue like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Meryl Magic | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...Marine Corps, remembers a different John. Says Krulak: "He was a popular and natural leader, and a superb mimic. He also had a real talent for the short story. I don't recall any of their plots except that they usually concerned 138-lb. wrestlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...first channel, scheduled to go into operation next spring, will mimic the all-news format used by many radio stations, with roundups of the day's top stories aired at least twice every hour, and sports, weather and short features tucked in between. "Give us 18 minutes," Satellite NewsChannels boasts, "and we'll give you the world." Satellite NewsChannels will carry film footage from ABC News but will not enlist the network's on-camera correspondents. Using four of the Group W stations and a mini-network of other local stations around the country, the new channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: One-Two Punch | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...members by what is applauded and what condemned; status symbol is synonymous with status signal. "Language," said Samuel Johnson, "is the dress of thought." But all over the world people act as though language were mere costume-and usually a disguise. Everybody (evidently nobody can help it) tends to mimic that anonymous signaler cited in Proverbs: "He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why So Much Is Beyond Words | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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