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...shows, the Great Peace March took a wobble last month at Mile 120, in the Mojave Desert. Its chief sponsor collapsed in bankruptcy. But several hundred survivors declared themselves ready to carry on as soon as they could get essential supplies, including, says Spokeswoman Lisa Bell, throat lozenges, cough syrup, herbal teas, vitamins and honey-dried fruits. Eastward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Celebrities in Politics: a Cure | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Valerie Harper, once TV's best-known neurotic single, is back in sitcomland as a housewife and mother of three boys in Valerie. Unfortunately, she spends more time milking gag lines than paying attention to the details of motherhood. When a youngster spills maple syrup all over the breakfast table, Mom yells convincingly but makes no move toward the table. Is there a mother on earth who would not be there with a sponge in two seconds flat? Of course, the gooey mess must stay in place so 16-year-old David (Jason Bateman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Sitting in the Maple Syrup | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national airline. Agents discovered the drug when they opened 55-gal. barrels of passion fruit in syrup and found football- shaped containers of coke bobbing in the mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried By a Tropical Snowstorm | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

When consumed in quantity, ipecac may be particularly poisonous to skeletal and heart muscle tissues and can eventually lead to death. Ipecac syrup is sold over the counter to induce vomiting in the case of accidental poisoning...

Author: By David A. Shaywitz, | Title: Doctors Discover Dangers Of Vomit-Inducing Drug | 12/11/1985 | See Source »

First you tear up 250 acres of California ranchland. Then you fill the holes with tons of sewage, cyanide, Nair hair-removal cream, spoiled Coca-Cola syrup, winery dregs, rocket fuel, rat carcasses, nitric acid, paint chips and fish organs. What do you get? A state-of-the-art toxic-waste-treatment facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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