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...ever heard of a sexy, sauve, passionate Sherlock Holmes, a Holmes with blow-dried hair and visible muscles, anyway? Would the real Sherlock Holmes burst into tears at the sight of a beautiful, helpless woman unjustly committed to an insane asylum? Would the real Holmes leap at the throat of an official in an attempt to kill him? Would he sweat in front of the Prime Minister? Now really, would...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: The Missing Sleuth | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

...interrogated by two local reporters. When he failed to respond fast enough to a question about who had ordered SAVAK to torture its prisoners, a masked militiaman prodded him and whispered, "Say the Shah, say the Shah." Nassiri wore a bandage on his head and talked as if his throat had been beaten. The station was flooded with calls protesting the appearance of an obviously injured man. "We overthrew the Shah because of his violation of democracy and human rights," complained a Tehran businessman. "It would be absurd to begin our republic by indulging in just such tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Yankee, We've Come to Do You In | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...department's resistance to integration is understandable, Savoid says, because it was "shoved down the department's throat; it was too big a change, and too fast." He adds that there is till a need for more black policemen on the force...

Author: By Lisa A. Newman, | Title: A Maryland County Goes on Trial | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Every seat in suburban Long Island's Nassau Coliseum was occupied, and the hockey fans were in full throat. The New York Islanders, two months a franchise in the National Hockey League, were taking on their mighty Manhattan rivals, the New York Rangers, for the first time and the cheers of the crowd were deafening. And, for the Islanders, galling: the first full house in the team's history was rooting for the Rangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's Power Players | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...have widespread support are the drug's effects on the heart and the lungs. Marijuana accelerates the rate at which the heart contracts and may temporarily weaken the strength of the contractions, making it potentially dangerous for people with certain cardiac conditions. Smoking pot irritates the lungs and throat and can result in "joint cough." Long-term use may impair the lungs. Other tentative findings...

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

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