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...particularly unsettling development has the sister cities of St. Pete and Tampa at each other's wryneck throats. Bucking nature and tradition, both have been bidding for full-time baseball, either an expansion team or a carpetbagger. Tampa has gone so far as to draw up blueprints for a domed stadium. St. Pete has gone much further: the skeleton of its dome has already been assembled on the former site of a gas plant (prompting a Tampa editorial cartoonist to depict the players and fans in gas masks). The state is growing, and Floridians no longer believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Place for Bright Starts | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...mind. The new tablet is a powerful muscle relaxant with some unusual painkilling qualities. Tried on more than 1,400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints-charley horse, tennis elbow, stiff neck, torticollis ("wryneck"), whiplash injury, muscular rheumatism, and muscle pain resulting from slipped disks. It also helps some (but by no means all) cases of cerebral palsy and Parkinsonism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brave New Soma | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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