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...women's squash teams, which collectively have lost only one match in the last four years. True, it would be a major upset if this soccer team won the national title, but one can certainly expect the Crimson to treat the rest of the Ivy League like toxic sludge--as in, disposed of as quickly as possible...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Unfinished Business | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...presented the third and final of his policy proposals as his train neared Chicago: a $1.9 billion environmental package that includes $1.3 billion for cleaning two-thirds of all Superfund sites by 2000. "I want an America in the 21st Century where no child has to live near a toxic waste dump," Clinton said to crowds gathered near the Kalamazoo river as he continued to press his theme that while Bob Dole represents a bridge to the past, a second Clinton administration would provide a bridge to the future. Like other proposals the president has offered in recent days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Policy Train | 8/28/1996 | See Source »

...Democratic convention begins in Chicago August 26. Some of the campaign battle lines are already manifest in the nationwide thrust-parry-counterthrust of TV campaign commercials. A new Clinton ad timed for the end of the Republican convention says Dole would cut Medicare by $270 million, and let toxic polluters "off the hook." The GOP will respond shortly with a massive series of ads of its own. Of the $62 million dollars in federal campaign funds the Dole campaign received after the convention, some $41 million is set aside for TV ads, meaning those who miss one of Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Road Again | 8/16/1996 | See Source »

...often the average person should take them, according to the American Pharmaceutical Association. Yet many serious overdoses (and deaths) occur in elderly patients or others who cannot handle the typical amount of a drug, who do not know that they are allergic to it, or who inadvertently create toxic combinations by taking different drugs concurrently. The FDA's proposed "MedGuides" would alert people to such common hazards as taking the allergy medicine Seldane with the antibiotic erythromycin, or from simultaneously taking digitalis and the heart medicine Cardizem. Opponents of the bill say doctors, drug companies and pharmacists can monitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Patient Beware | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

...often the average person should take them, according to the American Pharmaceutical Association. Yet many serious overdoses (and deaths) occur in elderly patients or others who cannot handle the typical amount of a drug, who do not know that they are allergic to it, or who inadvertently create toxic combinations by taking different drugs concurrently. The FDA's proposed "MedGuides" would alert people to such common hazards as taking the allergy medicine Seldane with the antibiotic erythromycin, or from simultaneously taking digitalis and the heart medicine Cardizem. Opponents of the bill say doctors, drug companies and pharmacists can monitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Patient Beware | 7/24/1996 | See Source »

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