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Following the doctor's prescription used to be simple enough. You dutifully swallowed your pills, smeared on your ointment or gulped down your medicine. And that was it. But physicians are finding that the old-fashioned ways of delivering medication can render treatment hopelessly ineffective -- even dangerous. Some people just forget to take pills, and repeated trips to the doctor for shots can be unpleasant and expensive. Tablets and injections can flood the bloodstream with drugs and disperse them unevenly through the system. And drugs can have toxic side effects. With an array of potent, highly specialized new therapeutic drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Just What the Doctor Ordered | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...soon becomes clear that this is not the perfect family it appears to be. Mommy and Daddy are upset that they have no children, but they are given to occasional moments of cruelty that would render them unfit to be parents anyway. They also have TV-sized attention spans and short memories. Mommy is catty and shrewish. Daddy is timorous and impotent...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Still Crazy After All These Years | 6/26/1988 | See Source »

...nature do not stop voluntarily. Sure enough, a book of 22 new Singer stories appeared in 1985, and now here come 20 more in The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories. In the space of six years, while moving into his ninth decade, the author has managed to render his earlier collection decidedly incomplete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Din of Demanding Voices | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...clubs shut down do not support Lisa Schkolnick's complaint against the Fly Club. These students do not believe that Schkolnick's suit will destroy the clubs or make them any less elitist, but rather that integrating the clubs would actually enhance their standing on campus, render them more socially acceptable, and bring them back into the center of campus life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battling Elitism | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

...Under those conditions, the only decision that could be taken was to render the criminals harmless," Sovietskaya Rossiya said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Family of Soviet Musicians Hijacks Plane | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

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