Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison...
Beginning in 1984, the FDA permitted the Syntex pharmaceutical firm to give doctors free ganciclovir, a drug used to treat eye infections that frequently blind AIDS patients, under a special program that allows "compassionate use" of unproven drugs. Doctors who have dispensed the drug are convinced that it works, but all the conventional controlled studies have not been done. Nonetheless, the FDA last week approved ganciclovir for full marketing and sales. The agency also gave the go-ahead for wider distribution of another unproven drug, erythropoietin, which is used in cases of AIDS-associated anemia...
TIME's first overseas editions, produced for U.S. forces during World War II, were known as pony editions, for their compact size and reduced news content. During World War II, we also started publishing a Canadian edition that included a special section of news about our northern neighbor. That edition was expanded in 1962, with the opening of an editorial office in Montreal, and began publishing occasional Canadian cover stories...
...running different covers, these editions contain an enriched diet of world news, reporting not only on politics but also on business and back-of-the-book subjects from art to video. The international editions even have several sections of their own, including Traveler's Advisory, a breezy guide to special events throughout the world; Readings, a survey of important books published outside the U.S.; and Cultures, a chronicle of the idiosyncratic sensitivities and surprising similarities of societies around the world...
...early months of the investigation, a number of smoking guns were found in this equipment. But one by one they turned out to be innocuous. The first was a circuit board that had been replaced but not sprayed with a special plastic that "tagged" it as an authorized repair. American officials were afraid the KGB had installed this circuit board to reroute uncoded U.S. message traffic. But the device was tested by NSA experts, who found that it did nothing improper. Security officials later discovered that some State % Department technicians had never been told about the secret tagging program...