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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story is a singularly horrible one, but the behavior that cost Dressel her life is by no means unique. Dressel died in a Mainz hospital, after three days of agonizing pain, because of a rare massive allergic reaction to the combination of drugs she took -- as many as 20 different kinds. She consumed them compulsively, seeking help from at least three different doctors to keep the medicine chest stocked, believing that they would all help her win. She believed as well that the drugs were nothing to worry about. When her mother questioned her about them, Dressel replied, "These...
...millions of Soviets who watch Molchanov's show find it spellbinding for other reasons. They tune in for a glimpse of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost: a prominent Soviet writer denouncing the "monstrous slavery" of Stalinism, scenes of rusting railway cars in an abandoned stretch of the Gulag, even rare film footage of Czar Nicholas II and the royal family...
...index of the athletic pharmacopoeia is long and gets longer. Rare and expensive human-growth hormone can, some say, turn children into massive competitive machines and aid muscle growth in adults. Stories circulate about puberty suppressants that allow gymnasts to keep their finely balanced girlish bodies. But no drugs pose as much of a threat to the fairness and legitimacy of athletic competition as anabolic steroids do. And as the Johnson scandal shows, nothing has so obscured the efforts of honest athletes or has contributed as much shame to the Games...
Generational themes are becoming as rare for Quayle as impromptu public remarks. Nowadays Quayle mainly echoes Bush's assaults on Dukakis, playing to the hard-core conservatives who make up the Republicans' base. Bush aides claim that rallying the party faithful is all they ever expected out of the Indiana Senator. "When you judge him," Bush adviser Rich Bond told reporters, "all I ask for is some perspective on what is the traditional role of a vice-presidential nominee...
...quite right for the right wing and the establishment to feel threatened, because changing the terms of the debate is bound somehow to influence legal education in a pervasive way," says Kennedy, a leading CLS scholar. "They see that changes in the terms of debate at this level are rare in the history of institutions so it's natural for them to be scared and angry...