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Researchers have yet to pinpoint the cause of CFS. The Epstein-Barr virus is active in some, but not all, sufferers, and experts doubt it is the root of the trouble. The illness seems to involve some malfunction of the immune system, perhaps triggered by stress, that can allow any number of normally dormant viruses, including Epstein-Barr, herpes VI and even polio-like pathogens, to become active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stalking A Shadowy Assailant | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...months or more can all be signs of CFS. Many patients are unable to work and even become bedridden. Alan Tolkoff, a Los Angeles management consultant who has recovered from CFS, got so weak that his wife had to spoon-feed him. With no specific tests to pinpoint the syndrome, patients having milder symptoms can go through several physicians before finding one who believes something is seriously wrong. However, more and more doctors are listening to the complaints and learning to distinguish CFS patients from people with tendencies toward hypochondria and depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stalking A Shadowy Assailant | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...surpassing strangeness of Twin Peaks is not easy to pinpoint. Despite a few grisly touches, the show has little to offend in terms of sex or violence. Its distinctiveness is almost purely a matter of style. The pace is slow and hypnotic, the atmosphere suffused with creepy foreboding, the emotions eerily heightened. The news of Laura Palmer's murder inspires spasms of grief in everyone from the girl's mother to the crew-cut school principal, who bursts into tears after announcing her death over the p.a. system. In other hands, this might be melodramatic; in Lynch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Like Nothing On Earth | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Officials involved with the study and the conference said yesterday that the report does not aim to answer the questions of how smoking cessation services can be improved but rather to pinpoint the issues involved...

Author: By Suzanne PETREN Moritz, | Title: Smoking Report Released | 4/5/1990 | See Source »

Another communist sect, the International Socialist Organization (ISO) looks back even further to pinpoint the end of true communism. Gary Springston, an ISO spokesperson, says that for all intents and purposes, socialism disappeared with Lenin's death...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: As Communism Falls Around the World, Local Radicals Vow To Stay the Course | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

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