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...Still, many experts find the glut of health-oriented advertisements for real food difficult to swallow. Declares Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer-advocacy group in Washington: "Some of the ads may be honest, but you need a Ph.D. to tell the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Real Food Stages a Comeback | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...could be that I'm just too cynical to swallow a story about older women falling madly in love with a 15-year-old because he was so kind and ingenous. After all, it is a true story...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: In The Goo | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

...A.M.A. argues that only the medical profession can intelligently guide the training of its own members. But in New York, Axelrod is pushing for implementation of his proposed changes by next July. Thus the medical profession in its reluctance to heal itself may be forced to swallow the bitter pill of imposed reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Re-Examining the 36-Hour Day | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the eighteenth century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...like Press or PF (for performance) and still meant to be smoked in a pipe, the pills encourage brand loyalty and thus help pushers develop a clientele. What especially disturbs police is that anyone who comes across the aspirin-shaped pill may mistake it for a headache remedy and swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Pills with A Punch | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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