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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire tumor, the patient was cured; if not, the cancer recurred. But now, for the first time, researchers have developed a drug therapy that may reduce the high death rate from this form of cancer, which kills 53,500 Americans each year and is the third most common type of malignancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death-Defying Drug Therapy | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Jeff and Beau Bridges play Jack and Frank Baker--brothers who make their living in a two-piano nightclub act. Frank spits out the typical lounge-lizard vapid-speak which is endemic to "fill-the-tables/move-the-liquor" -type establishments. Jack, the younger, hipper and better-looking of the two, steadfastly suffers through the schmaltz for 31 years...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Torch Song Trio | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...need a haircut, according to a friend. He's a trustworthy type, but he leaves me in a quandary. Where should...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Superlative Cuts | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

...finalists boast qualifications across arange of activities that span the extracurricularbreadth of Harvard. The reason for this, claimsLeverett House's John David Brewington Jr., is thefact that these people, who voters "see" and"like", are the type who "are not satisfied withjust cracking the books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors to Elect Eight Class Marshal Finalists | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...stories amounts to a blatant rejection of the poetic notion that each time the bell of doom tolls, it tolls for all mankind. The collective news judgment seems to be that each death diminishes the reader in direct proportion to the shared bonds of nationality, ethnicity, religion, type of government and the like. Pointing out this callous calculus seems to do nothing to mitigate it. As Columbia University professor Herbert Gans noted in his 1980 study Deciding What's News, network journalists in the 1960s tried to prick their bosses' consciences by assembling "a Racial Equivalence Scale, showing the minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Who Cares About Foreigners? | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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