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According to scientists at universities throughout the country, the biotechnological industry cooled down once its wonder drug, interferon, proved not to be a miracle cure for cancer. The shrinking pubic appeal of these businesses led to a sharp reduction in investments and sparked an intense competition that has threatened many of the smaller firms. Jeremy R. Knowles, Amory Professor of Chemistry, predicts that "the smaller ones [will] be eaten by the larger ones in a Darwinian struggle for survival...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Coming to Grips With Biotechnology | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...criminally liable for distributing pornography if it develops and returns sexually explicit photographs. Kodak has been quietly censoring commercial and family photos for decades. In the 1930s, snaps of nudes and even women in skimpy bathing suits were not returned; and in the '60s, neither were shots showing pubic hair. Both of those are now allowed, with the changing of public morals and the company's standards. But Kodak still draws the line at photos that show "ultimate sexual acts" and the "lewd exhibition of genitals." Penthouse's slides apparently fell into the last category...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Porno Pets | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

With Puerto Rican youngsters now making up 25% of the pubic school population, one of the community's highest priorities is education. But according to New York's deputy mayor for education, Herman Badillo, the city's efforts on behalf of Hispanic pupils are a "disaster in all areas." Says Badillo, a Puerto Rican: "We have plenty of jobs in the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan; the problem is that kids can't spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NEW YORK | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...this the magazines have sometimes played a liberating role, giving space to honest facings of troubling concerns. But they all compete to exploit these concerns and curiosities. Their subject is sex, not love; their emphasis is all on experiencing and experimenting; their message is self-gratification. "I went pubic in 1967," says Guccione proudly -while Playboy was still holding back. He also started a skin magazine for women, Viva. With the air of a man who might have invented first penicillin and then Aureomycin, he lists his publishing firsts: "Lesbians, threes, full-frontal male nudity, erect penis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Merchants of Raunchiness | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...infected person can receive treatment at any university or public or pubic health clinic, Fiumara said. Clinics and private doctors usually use a salve, which is rubbed into the infected area and showered off 24 hours later. Nonprescription remedies are also available over the counter...

Author: By Scott A. Kripke, | Title: Pubic Lice Are on the Loose; College Students Easy Target | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

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