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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...football shake their heads at Chris Mullin and Tommy Kramer. But baseball literally cheers for hangovers. In Mel Allen's day at the Yankee mike, home runs were "Ballantine blasts." Now the St. Louis Cardinals do their rallying to the Budweiser jingle played incessantly on the Busch Stadium organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Heady Mix: Booze and Baseball | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Phillip Brooks House (PBH) Prison Committee's purpose is to teach poorly educated Massachusetts prisoners enough to pass a high school equivalency exam. Under PBH's auspices, Harvard students travel to several different prisons, including Deer Island in Winthrop. Program organ izers say they hope if inmates earn General Educational Development (GED) certificates, they will be able to get decent jobs after their release...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: When Worlds Collide: Tutoring in Prisons | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...remake of the Walter Mondale-Gary Hart spats of four years ago. Despite some differences on foreign policy, Gore and Dukakis represent much the same style of end-to-ideology Democratic pragmatism. Gore prospered in Congress by stressing a host of technocratic issues, ranging from the ozone layer to organ transplants. Ever since his comeback victory as Governor in 1982, Dukakis has artfully avoided most of the pitfalls of free-spending liberalism. His major initiatives, like welfare reform and industrial development, were designed to blur ideological differences rather than accentuate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three-Way Gridlock | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...going to pay for America to grow old? With each advancement in medical technology, the possibility of extending people's lives increases. Who is to decide who should get the organ transplant or have first access to kidney-dialysis machines? The questions have fired a debate about what society owes its elderly, what should constitute a natural life-span and how far doctors should go to keep elderly patients alive. Medical Ethicist Daniel Callahan, 57, suggests that health involves more than preventing death. "We should seek to advance research and health care that increase not the length of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Grays on The Go | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Aging, however, is hardly a benign process. Acknowledges Dr. Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago: "By and large, the changes are decremental. Every organ is losing reserve capacity." That means a decline in the ability to recover from physical stresses. A 60-year-old and a 20-year-old who race around the block may start out with the same pulse rate, notes Vincent Cristofalo, director of the University of Pennsylvania's center for the study of aging. "Even when they stop," he notes, "their pulses may be only a little different. The big difference will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Older - But Coming on Strong | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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