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The move is a major departure from the FDA's traditional practice of requiring rigorous tests, which can take up to seven years, to establish a drug's safety and effectiveness before granting approval. Black-market versions of the aerosol pentamidine have circulated for years, but the treatment has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help on The Way | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

A clandestine cottage industry has grown up to convert these guns into full ! automatics, which can fire long bursts with a single pull of the trigger (a semi-automatic, despite its rapid-fire capability, requires a separate squeeze of the trigger for each round). A skilled gunsmith can accomplish the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Arms Race | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

The longer Brown campaigns, the closer he gets to this goal. Though he is running against three former Congressmen and one state party chairman, all white, he is clearly in the lead. That has put the party in a bind: his election would alienate many whites, but a last-minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running As His Own Man: RONALD BROWN | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

Even worse, sheltering academically deficient students throughout high school and college gives them the destructive perception that their athletic ability will always grant them success without academic achievment. Except for the miniscule number who become professionals, college athletes will eventually discover that athletic ability alone is not a ticket to...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: A Sporting Chance? | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

None of these facts are in dispute or particularly difficult to come by, but the makers of Mississippi Burning, in their pursuit of a box-office smash, chose to ignore them. In the process, they have not only turned history inside out but have also lent support to a racist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Just Another Mississippi Whitewash | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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