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Such permissive governmental attitudes towards regulating manmade carcinogens reflects the fundamental misdirection of the fight against cancer. An emphasis on clinical research reflects the hope that research will uncover a cure for cancer--a "magic bullet" which will home in on the cancerous tissue. Cancer, though, is not one disease...

Author: By Joanna R. Handelman, | Title: Tackling Cancer Straight On | 2/26/1983 | See Source »

Mayor Kevin H. White, in office for 16 years, is under fire, accused of running a corrupt political machine which is incapable of dealing with the city's problems. The Hub press, once firmly in his corner, now vigorously works to uncover new failings and improprieties in the White administration...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Seven Candidates Heating Up Race for Boston mayor's Seat | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

The question of Soviet influence becomes difficult to call when counterespionage officials try to uncover KGB links to the antinuclear movement in the U.S. and Western Europe. By CIA reckoning, the Soviets spend roughly $3 billion to $4 billion each year on overt and covert propaganda activities. According to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

None of these events was made public at the time. But last October, Peter Murtagh, a reporter for the Irish Times, talked to Tully, who had successfully appealed his transfer, and published details of the attempted coverup. That produced an anonymous tip that the police, on the orders of Haughey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Liffeygate | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

In 1954, while a popular science-fiction writer, Hubbard founded Scientology in Phoenix. The church, which grew at a phenomenal rate in the U.S. and abroad, was based on ideas in a bestseller titled Dianetics that Hubbard wrote in 1950. The aim of dianetics is to rid a person of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystery of the Vanished Ruler | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

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