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...computer graphics project that after only six years in the crossover program, Tito could become Toshino," he explains, "the quiet, well-dressed, manicured, well-groomed, somewhat anal-retentive overachiever who is ready to enter the job market at the drop of a dollar." The sketch takes a slapstick twist when the Crossover King, suffering a relapse into his Latin self, suddenly starts dancing and shouting Spanish phrases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mocking The Ethnic Beast | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

Widely covered by the press, the procedure prompted dozens of phone calls to the NCI from patients desperately seeking a cure. Rosenberg stresses, however, that his work is highly experimental. The treatment puts a new twist on classic vaccine strategy. "When you think of a vaccine, it's usually to prevent a disease," he explains. "Here we're actually treating an advanced cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Cancer to Fight Cancer | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...show, of course, had a politically correct twist. The final group of parading lovelies were -- what else? -- topless men. Come back, Merv. All is forgiven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Off at the Mouth | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...wacky twist on an old concept, two of the three nude men were on crutches, witnesses said...

Author: By Joel O. Ying, | Title: Streaking First-Years: They Did it 'For Honor' | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

Families can be pieced together with borrowed sperm, borrowed eggs and borrowed wombs. Women are having babies long after their prime childbearing year -- even after menopause. In yet another twist, Arlette Schweitzer, 42, of Aberdeen, S. Dak., is expected to give birth to her own twin grandchildren next month, having served as a surrogate for her daughter Christa, who was born without a uterus. "Next to Christa, I'm the happiest woman in the world," says Schweitzer. "We feel so blessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treating Infertility: Making Babies | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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