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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living in a new age of medicine." That was the appraisal last week of Dr. Robert Gale, a UCLA hematologist and veteran of the medical team that treated victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster last year. Gale had just returned from Rio de Janeiro, where with an international group of physicians he had spent ten days treating six badly irradiated victims of a bizarre accident in Brazil with an experimental drug called GM-CSF. "When it comes to these disasters," concluded Gale, who will soon return to Rio, "all the handbooks on treatment will have to be rewritten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Battle Against Deadly Dust | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...democratic reform and peaceful coexistence with their neighbors, or are merely making temporary moves to ensure the destruction of the contras. Since the signing of the accord, Nicaragua has taken several small steps, among them reopening the opposition daily La Prensa and Radio Catolica, inviting three exiled priests to return home and beginning talks with Nicaragua's opposition parties. But, warns an Arias aide, "we see all kinds of indications that Ortega would like to wriggle out of his commitments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Eyeing a Dialogue | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...Because in this movie women have the power, positively and negatively. When Alex hears Dan threaten her, she doesn't take it seriously. But when Beth tells Alex she is going to kill her, Alex trembles. And the final battle is between the two women. It is like a return bout from last year's Aliens, except that this time the career woman is the monster, and it's the mother who wins. The movie cleverly plays to both sides of woman. And even though it is hateful politically, it is appealing to women. The film itself has a fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...this country is very volatile right now. I think many women are feeling used by men. They invest a lot in a relationship, in nurturing a man emotionally and in his career, but they have their own careers and emotions and they don't get that nurturing in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Getting Close to Stardom | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...afford a visit to what some call their grandmother country don't all return charmed. "On my first visits I was shocked by all the slums and poverty," says George Hunnicutt, 63, great-grandson of the Confederate colony's first doctor. "So last year, when I took my grandchildren there, I decided to show them the storybook side of America. We went to Disney World, Epcot Center and Sea World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brazil: Echoes from the Confederacy | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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