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Researchers are making good use of the new technology and gene discoveries to develop an array of novel drugs. "Now that we have an increasing ability to identify and sequence genes, there is no doubt that there will be an improvement in the way we go about drug development," says Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, senior vice president of basic research at Merck, in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey...
...trend is easily measurable in dollars and cents. A third of adult Americans, most of whom consult medical doctors as well, spend an estimated $13.7 billion a year out of their own pockets on a bewildering array of breakaway treatments, including chiropractic, colonic irrigation, meditation, homeopathy, naturopathy, hypnotherapy, music therapy, folk medicine, guided imagery and Shiatsu massage. More than 1,000 homeopathic medicines are sold over the counter, along with a bewildering variety of vitamins, minerals, herbal remedies, fat burners, passion promoters and bee pollen...
...middle-American families as a means of helping them pay for college, and he did not want to appear to be against the general principle of relieving the tax burden Americans face. Indeed, in 1996, within the context of his balanced-budget proposal, the President did endorse a wide array of tax cuts designed to help families pay for education, child care and home ownership--cuts that were fully paid for within the President's budget plan. In contrast, most Americans felt that the more ambitious, across-the-board tax-cut proposals Senator Dole and the Republicans outlined during...
President Clinton was hardly the first candidate to inject values into the debate. The religious right and conservative Republicans had used the term "family values" with some degree of success. The genius of the President's new approach was that he couched an array of government and political issues in values-based terms that connected with voters more deeply than the social issues used by Conservatives. Our polling demonstrated overwhelmingly that voters judge policies and events less in economic terms than in moral terms of right and wrong. We found, for example, that people preferred to support Head Start...
...belt holds his midsection in place but is needed only when a spasm threatens to jolt his body from the chair. Otherwise he and the chair are one--the 6-ft. 4-in. frame of the man conforming to the contours of the black metal contraption that, with its array of tubes, dials, wheels and wires, looks to be part hospital, part tractor...