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...coins, which are legal tender, have face values of $50, $25, $10 and $5 and weigh, respectively, one ounce, one-half ounce, a quarter of an ounce and a tenth of an ounce. The Eagles will sell to consumers for the market price of gold, which closed last week at $425 per oz., plus an estimated 8% markup. It may take as long as two weeks for the currency to filter down to retail dealers, who will then offer them to the public. The U.S. last issued gold coins in 1933, but then they traded at their face value; bullion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legal Eagles: A newly minted coin takes off | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...albeit at a pace that might exhaust less energetic souls. In addition to taking courses, the 4-ft. 9-in. sprite will continue her commercial endorsements and hopes to be an NBC commentator at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. "I had to stop my real education in the tenth grade," says Retton of her decision. She didn't want to look back later and "wish I went to college." Her first English paper was on her coach Bela Karolyi. "It was supposed to be descriptive, and I know him very well," explains Retton. "I got good comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 13, 1986 | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

Seoul's Kimpo Airport was bright with flowers and women in traditional Korean hanbok dresses welcoming visitors to the tenth Asian Games, which began last week. Suddenly a bomb exploded in a metal trash basket outside the arrival area, ripping into crowds as they loaded baggage into cars and killing five Koreans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The Show Must Go On | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

Body Bronze's equipment is the most up-to-date available, Scott says, and shoots out the lowest percentage of the harmful beta waves possible, one-tenth of one percent. Tanorama claims to be the latest also, but its percentage of harmful beta waves is considerably higher, 2.8 percent...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Sun in the Square Isn't Just for Summer | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

...cells back into the mice. The cells, as if by instinct, sought out the tumors that had spread from the original cancer and attacked them. To keep the TIL cells vigorous and growing, the NCI team had to inject the mice with additional IL-2, but only about a tenth as much as in the LAK treatments. As a result, few serious side effects were apparent. With the addition of cyclophosphamide, a drug that Rosenberg believes suppresses immune-system cells that might otherwise impede the TIL cells, the treatment achieved its spectacular success rates. Most important, the combined therapy cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Weapon in the Cancer War? | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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