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...been around since at least the 15th century B.C., when it was used in China as an anesthetic, a ritual potion, a condiment and an intoxicant. As it moved on to India and beyond, it was applied to all manner of miseries: allergies, rheumatism, falling hair, tapeworm, leprosy, gonorrhea, failing memory and dandruff. Today marijuana is being considered as a treatment to reduce eyeball pressure in glaucoma patients and to reduce vomiting by cancer patients receiving drug therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Medical View | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Racing is the down home sport of North Carolina. The tapeworm roads that swing through the Piedmont hills seem designed for it, and until this decade they were used for exactly that by moonshiners. Almost every male over 14 shyly admits to a little informal dark-of-night racing experience. California teen-agers get high on laughing gas; their peers in North Carolina prefer the 150 h.p. bursts of acceleration that a bottle of nitrous oxide delivers when attached to a sedan's air filter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/sport: Just Like Whiskey | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...through the book as savory tautologies. But deep down, Aquarius and Scorpio knew they would never turn to gold. In the end, there would he only the ancient gray moon rocks talking their number language to spectroscopes and computers-the machines Aquarius saw as "some species of higher tapeworm was quietly ingesting the vitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reflections on a Star-Crossed Aquarius | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...burly, unblinking Tsafendas sat in the dock, his head bobbing, his lips forming soundless words, the experts described him as a schizophrenic haunted by the obsession that a tapeworm was coiled up inside his stomach, gnawing and cutting him to pieces. Over the past 30 years, they added, Tsafendas had been a mental patient in five countries, including the U.S., and had escaped from at least two institutions. Settling down in South Africa, Tsafendas somehow landed his messenger's job last August (a secret government inquiry is exploring the lapse in screening); then, acting on the impulse that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Tapeworm Murder | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...launched the French New Wave, proves that with honest camera work and well-motivated plot films may be excitingly nouvelle without being murkily vague. Fiasco in Milan. This one takes up where Big Deal on Madonna Street leaves off, with Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes. Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Françoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater: May 17, 1963 | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

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