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At last all we harborers of the insidious polyp can come out of the closet. We no longer live with the stigma of having experienced what was once one of the most dehumanizing treatments yet devised by the medical profession. President Reagan has freed us and given us undreamed of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

The 154th annual convention of the International Platform Association, established by Statesman-Orator Daniel Webster to disseminate culture to outlying states and distract them from rebellion, was off and droning. Last week nearly 800 speakers, would-be speakers, booking agents, college program directors and even a few plain old listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions of Lecture Lucre | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Under pressure from the U.S., Japan agreed last November to put its sperm whalers, among the last practitioners of an ancient profession, out of business by 1988. American conservationists, who consider whaling a senseless slaughter of an endangered species, were not satisfied. Greenpeace and eleven other environmental groups sued the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

To promote his boycott, Chavez has traveled from Los Angeles to Boston, picking up endorsements from such prominent politicians as Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Paul Simon of Illinois. Chavez thinks that if he can get 6% of the population to stop eating grapes, growers will be forced to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

He is 44 years old but seems both younger and older, sort of timeless too, and he is still thriving at the major league level. In an ordinary profession, the 40s may be a disquieting, though far from a disqualifying age. Mortality's half time. But for a 44-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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