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Imagine for a moment that your daughter needs a bone-marrow transplant and no one can provide a match; that your wife's early menopause has made her infertile; or that your five-year-old has drowned in a lake and your grief has made it impossible to get your mind around the fact that he is gone forever. Would the news then really be so easy to dismiss that around the world, there are scientists in labs pressing ahead with plans to duplicate a human being, deploying the same technology that allowed Scottish scientists to clone Dolly the sheep...
...having trouble keeping food down and traditional doctors could not tell what was wrong. At the chiropractor's suggestion, he consulted a non-traditional practitioner who examined his eyes and made the correct diagnosis--a bone lodged in his digestive tract just above the stomach...
...estate-tax repeal is looking more and more like the perfect bone for Bush to throw the Democrats when the negotiating gets started in earnest. Despite Denny Hastert's impressive p.r. sell of the cut last year - he had the bill delivered to the White House on a tractor, playing up the family-farmer angle - it remains the most obviously rich-skewed of Bush's cuts. Turning over that paper $236 billion to the Democrats for some lower-income cuts - or pulling it from the plan altogether - could speed up the negotiations significantly...
Exercising is also important, with emphasis on weight-bearing activities (walking, jogging, racquet sports) in which bones and muscles work against gravity. Lifting weights and working out on resistance machines can help preserve bone density...
...cure for osteoporosis, but it can be effectively treated by a powerful class of medications called bisphosphonates; Fosamax and Actonel are the only two that have been approved for men. Some physicians also prescribe testosterone supplements for patients with low testosterone levels, and calcitonin, a drug that slows bone loss...