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Even before the St Germain report, small businessmen across the U.S. were skeptical that the prime was really the best rate available. Snaps Robert Laughlin, a Portland, Ore., food-equipment distributor: "The prostituted prime is nothing but greediness on the part of large banks." Attorney Jackie Kleiner has filed suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prime Is Anything but Prime | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

There are many who view these soldiers in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) as "terrorists," slaughtering the innocent for bizarre religious reasons. But the cause these men fight for is not Catholicism; it is the unification of Ireland under Irish rule. We endorse that goal, for the same reason that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ireland for The Irish | 5/15/1981 | See Source »

Each year, thousands of Americans die from fires. In too many of the cases, death occurs because so much skin is burned away that vital body functions are disrupted. Essential fluids ooze out, and natural defenses are too weakened to fight off bacterial infection. To prevent these complications, doctors try...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Making Skin from Sharks | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Developed over the past decade by Surgeon John F. Burke of Massachusetts General Hospital and Mechanical Engineer Ioannis V. Yannas of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the artificial skin has so far been used on ten patients, ranging in age from three to 60. All had third-degree burns over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Making Skin from Sharks | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

About as thick as kitchen paper toweling, artificial skin is soft, pliable and handles very much like the real thing, though it is not quite so sturdy. It is draped on burn sites in patches as large as 6 in. by 10 in. Says Burke: "The nerve fibers from below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Making Skin from Sharks | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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