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Consider the problem. You have half a bottle of pills that the Food and Drug Administration has just banned because of inadequate knowledge of side effects. What do you do? Last week the answer from many American dieters hooked on the latest get-thin-quick scheme was to rush out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Block Those Starch Blockers | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

At the P.L.O. press office again, seeing it for perhaps the last time. Residents of the apartments above it are hauling box springs and couches through the lobby. Mahmoud Labadi, chief press spokesman and a thoughtful, mysterious man, has not yet arrived. His office looks as if it had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: Seven Days in a Small War | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

The elder Molyneuxs instilled in their only son the values they grew up with. Guy calls his mother a "red diaper baby" and his father is active in the local teachers' union. For Guy, too, labor activity has provided a common thread of interest. He spent much of freshman year...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Marching to a Fast Drummer | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

TIME'S economists saw other encouraging signs that the slump may soon end. Runaway inflation has subsided, enabling the public to stretch its money further. The Administration's $1.6 trillion defense buildup is also helping to stimulate a recovery. Corporations that have been decreasing their inventories appear ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight on the Consumer | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

In Japan and China, this is the Year of the Dog. In the U.S., it looks suspiciously like the Year of the Hog. Suddenly, for old and young alike, Sus domestica, the farmyard pig, seems to be displacing the cat as a national object of whimsy, affection, satire and extravagant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Getting High on the Hog | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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