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Amid the cries of alarm, some experts caution against equating the banking industry's problems with the thrift disaster. Overall, banks in the U.S. earned $26 billion last year, while S&Ls lost more than $19 billion. "I disagree strongly with the notion that the problem in the banking industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking The Bank: FDIC is low on cash and may need a bailout | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Scientists say that children of FHC-affected parents have a 50 percent chance of inheriting the disease. If FHC could be detected early in childhood, doctors would know whether to limit a child's rigorous activity, Seidman said.

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Doctors Isolate Heart Gene | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Despite resistance, sociobiology has been absorbed into the scientific mainstream, and Wilson's spadework in the fields of entomology and island biogeography has passed rigorous peer review. His book On Human Nature won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979, and this year he shared the Crafoord Prize with population biologist Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: Splendor in The Grass | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

But can he make it stick? And will it work? While economists believe that Collor's bold program is well reasoned and long overdue, the consensus is that he overshot the mark initially, stopping inflation but nearly halting business as well. In the process, he has angered Big Business, alienated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil The Biggest Shake-Up | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

Houk insists that his opposition to continuing the project was based solely on rigorous scientific principles. "If we could find a population of people who were exposed in sufficient numbers, we would have proceeded with our study," he says. "We just simply could not find them." Skeptics like Congressman Weiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cover-Up on Agent Orange? | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

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