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...central system do not normally respond to it. Researchers are investigating ways to use ngf and proteins like it to encourage new axonal growth from the spinal cord. ngf injected into the spinal cords of rats revived connections from the spinal cord to the brain, but it remains uncertain whether more or less ngf is better for nerve growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

Only Jamie seems concerned with breaking this cycle, however unsteadily, and it is for this uncertain passion that the character of Jamie remains the most difficult, compelling and catalytic of the play. Bill Camp, assuredly the ART's most urgent talent, brings fine skill to his portrayal of Jamie, ferreting out each minor and irresistible motivation, each thread of resentment and desperate love for his family which subtly bombard the young man. The dynamism of Camp's performance is apparent in the variety of moods and postures his Jamie takes as he emotionally gropes for a solution to save...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: To Jamie, With Love and Squalor | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...kind of well-defined character that wins disciples and imitators. Yet in casting off the title of Senate majority leader, one of the golden prizes of American political life, even Bob Dole, a longtime master of the power game, has in effect admitted that power is a prize of uncertain value. By itself, it doesn't provide a vision or a following. It is possible that a presidential candidate can succeed without the first. Without the second, he has a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOU'VE READ ABOUT WHO'S INFLUENTIAL, BUT WHO HAS THE POWER? | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Despite its illustrious history, the modern pentathlon faces an uncertain future. Unlike new Olympic sports such as beach volleyball and the triathlon (which will debut in four years), the modern pentathlon has little popular and corporate appeal, especially in the U.S. "This sport is the celebration of an ideal," says top U.S. pentathlete Michael Gostigian, 33. "But we have to package it better." One small step was compressing the competition from four days into one. Hoping to gain a higher profile, the U.S. team named actor Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) to the administrative post of team leader. A few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPIC MONITOR | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Loeb argues that in an increasingly uncertain marketplace, one where graduates of elite schools are no longer guaranteed good jobs, students feel a more personal connection to the plight of the less fortunate...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: An Analysis of the NEW ACTIVISM | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

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