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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cover: Photograph by Bruce Plotkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 15 OCTOBER 9, 1989 | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Loyalty to Barry may be costing Washingtonians their long-cherished dream of gaining voting representation in Congress through a congressional amendment granting statehood to the District. Says Mark Plotkin, a member of the city's Democratic committee: "We ask members of Congress, 'What about statehood?' and they look at us and say, 'What about the mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayor Barry: A Capital Offense | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...never gotten any professional counseling," the Governor said. "I normally look to my family for support when I need it." Dukakis also seized the opportunity to rise magnanimously above Reagan. "We all occasionally misspeak," he said. "I don't really think the President had to apologize." Gerald Plotkin, Dukakis' doctor since 1971, released a detailed three-page report pronouncing Dukakis "in excellent health and physical shape." Wrote Plotkin: "He has had no psychological symptoms, complaints or treatment." Before the week ended, Dukakis set aside his resistance to releasing medical records and made known everything in Plotkin's file. All that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan: Part Fixer, Part Hatchet Man | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

According to a source at the police department who asked to remain anonymous, the woman gave police and court officials several different aliases, including Shirley Yu-Plotkin and Shirley Maxer. Saying she "seemed kind of deranged," the police official added that the woman skipped her arraignment proceedings earlier this week. She now faces "arrest on sight" by a default warrant...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: Police Seek Mass Hall Trespasser | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

...Plotkin and his colleagues are also assessing the economic potential of such tropical plants as "killer" potatoes, which trap insects on their sticky surface hairs; the Amazonian buriti palm, rich in vitamins A and C; the pupunha palm, whose proportions of carbohydrates, proteins, oil, minerals and vitamins make it an ideal staple; and Fevillea, a vine with seeds rich in an oil that may one day be used as an industrial lubricant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Quiet Apocalypse | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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