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Upon investigation of CFT binding in postmortem tissue in Parkinson's and normal brain tissue, it was found that CFT did indeed affect those areas with large numbers of pre-synaptic neurons...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Biology of Cocaine Addiction Studied in Monkey Behavior | 4/2/1991 | See Source »

...word-of- mouth smash. If nearly all the June movies could be called Total Recall (so reminiscent are they of previous action hits), the films of July and August could be labeled Presumed Interesting. Moviegoers are looking for something different, and they may have already found it in the postmortem romantic thriller Ghost or the eye-spider horror comedy Arachnophobia. Presumed Innocent hopes to corner the serious market. Even David Lynch is invading summertime with his bizarro-world Wild at Heart. Each hopes to duplicate the surprise-hit status of last summer's When Harry Met Sally, Dead Poets Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: If It Worked Before, Do It Again | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...cops, Seamus Duffy was a rioter who got what he was asking for. To his parents, he was an innocent bystander, gunned down by the heartless enemy. To the English public, he was all but invisible. The Sunday Times of London issued a happy postmortem on the anniversary, calling it "one of the most peaceful fortnights in the present troubles . . . only one British soldier was killed, as a result of an accidental discharge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Death After School | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

Adrianov hopes the postmortem on Sakharov will shed light on the relationship between brain construction and scientific genius. But the Brain Institute is not especially interested in what made Sakharov the great dissident he was. Says Adrianov: "A political activist can be anybody, but not anybody can be a great scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Probing the Key to Genius | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...first thing a party does after it loses an election is round up the usual suspects. The Democrats' postmortem of the Dukakis debacle has produced a fairly standard list of fall guys. It starts with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why The Left Keeps Losing | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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