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...appetite, vomiting, fatigue and jaundice. In some cases, the infection leads to cirrhosis or perhaps even cancer of the liver. The villain virus appears in the blood, saliva, semen or breast milk of about 200 million human "carriers" who may show no signs of the disease but can transmit the virus to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hepatitis Hope | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...Sunday, the Karmapa will perform at the Opera House the ceremony of the Vajra Crown, believed to transmit the energy and intelligence of the enlightened mind...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Buddhist Master, the Karmapa, Begins Visit, Religious Talks | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Light enters the eye in parallel rays, which are gradually bent as they pass through the cornea and lens. In the normal eye, they converge, or focus, precisely on the retina at the back of the eyeball. Electrical impulses then transmit a sharp image to the brain. In the nearsighted, however, the eyeball is usually too long or the cornea too curved, so that the rays come to a focus in front of the retina. In the farsighted, the eyeball is too short or the cornea too flat and the light rays, if they could pass through it, would converge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shaping Up the Blurry Eye | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...only limitation left on cable TV programming is a prohibition against airing a national network production on one of the extra cable channels at the same time that a local network affiliate is showing it. Another regulation still in force: a cable TV company cannot transmit regional sports events that over-the-air stations in the area have had to black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Star Wars | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...also been barred from hotels where foreign tourists are staying. The Soviets even refused to allow the U.S. Ambassador to deliver his traditional Fourth of July speech and the French Ambassador to make his traditional Bastille Day speech, because both contained references to Afghanistan. Soviet officials also refused to transmit a French TV report on the Bastille Day censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

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