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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, he says that the presence of A. beta is not as important as the concentration of the protein present in the individual. Like cholesterol, A. beta tends to becomes toxic only when found in excessive amounts...

Author: By Matthew S. Mchale, | Title: Small Step for Alzheimer's, Large Step for Science | 2/18/1997 | See Source »

...beta...is what I call a Jekyll and Hyde molecule," Selkoe says, comparing the protein to Robert Louis Stevenson's famous tale of a scientist gone bad. "It has a good function--a Jekyll function--and then when it builds up, it has a Mr. Hyde function--it becomes toxic...

Author: By Matthew S. Mchale, | Title: Small Step for Alzheimer's, Large Step for Science | 2/18/1997 | See Source »

...mind. Only after 27 rewrites was the script deemed suitably uplifted and dumbed down for filming. At one point an exasperated Dunne asks a producer what he thinks the picture is really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers. 'Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 2/16/1997 | See Source »

...mind. Only after 27 rewrites was the script deemed suitably uplifted and dumbed down for filming. At one point an exasperated Dunne asks a producer what he thinks the picture is really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers. 'Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 2/14/1997 | See Source »

...provision does not apply and the damages are taxable," Breyer said. Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, saying "both types of damages are 'received on account of the personal injury.'" The decision came in the case of O'Gilvie vs. U.S., where the family of Betty O'Gilvie, who died of toxic shock syndrome, won $10 million in punitive damages from International Playtex, the maker of the tampons used by Mrs. O'Gilvie. Tuesday's decisions upheld rulings that forced the family to pay about $1.3 million in federal taxes on that amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congratulations -- Now, Pay Up | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

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