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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Norplant is essentially an old contraceptive in a new package. Developed by the Population Council, an international nonprofit research group, and Wyeth- Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp. of Philadelphia, the method prevents pregnancy by using the hormone progestin, which with estrogen is the active ingredient in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Pill That Gets Under the Skin | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

That uncertainty showed up clearly in a poll of U.S. households taken for TIME late last month by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Fully 94% of those surveyed considered protecting the environment a very important issue, and 63% supported stronger laws and regulations to get the job done. But when it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Earth Update Is the Planet on the Back Burner? | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Operatives for the now divorced author are casting around for a professional writer to pen the first of "her" two novels. It's proving difficult to find a well-known scribe willing to accept $300,000 for the uncredited job, especially when Ivana's sitting on an estimated $3 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghostbuster of the Week | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

What accounted for this latest display of Oval Office policy juggling? One ingredient is the ongoing conflict between the "kinder, gentler" President Bush, outwardly sympathetic to society's disadvantaged, and the ruthless Candidate Bush, willing to exploit atavistic emotions to gain votes. Another factor is the slippery nature of racial...

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

Though movie admissions cost about $12 in Japan, customers seem willing to pay that to stand in the aisles for American films. "To the Japanese, American movies are hip and trendy, and Japanese audiences would rather die than be unfashionable," says William Ireton, managing director of Warner Bros. Japan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Leisure Empire | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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