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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Bleakly dispassionate, wrenchingly violent, John McNaughton's study of anonymous psychopathy is a scary and scarring experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Movies | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...bill. They will; Senator Edward Kennedy and the other leading sponsors plan to reintroduce the measure early in 1991. Bennett was accurately assumed to be speaking for the White House. Thus the near universal belief that the Bush forces were sculpting a new version of Willie Horton, the black killer used in 1988 as a symbol of liberals' softness on crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing The Waters on Race | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...enforcement officials had an explanation: they feared a repeat of the media circus that surrounded the celebrated Stuart murder case, when police scoured the city for a black assailant only to learn that the real killer was the victim's white husband. Some community leaders insisted that if Harbour had been white and middle class instead of a poor black crack addict, the case would have been widely publicized. What they failed to note was that this crime was probably not about race but about gender. Before their rampage, the suspects, who were black and Hispanic, allegedly declared that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston: Double Standard? | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

Fortunately, as awareness grows that diabetes is a major killer, some discoveries in the field are giving new hope to its victims. Scientists are beginning to understand what causes diabetes and how to slow its progress. In fact, researchers are increasingly optimistic about developing drug treatments that may stop the affliction cold in many cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Diabetes A Slow, Savage Killer | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...insidious, often overlooked killer, high blood sugar affects some 100 million people worldwide. Insulin injections, pills or special diets allow many of them to have normal life-spans, but they may develop eye, nerve and circulatory damage. In the not too distant future, drug treatments and vaccines may stop the affliction cold or block its onset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 136, No. 23 NOVEMBER 26, 1990 | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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