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...Cheney, the former oil-service-company executive who is driving Bush's energy bus, has bluntly warned that there will be no magic bullet to deal with high gasoline prices or electricity shortages. And late last week, the President scoffed at the idea of intervening in the marketplace. "There's no such thing as immediate supply," he said...
...memory and recall problems, are very likely the first step on the way to Alzheimer's disease. If so, then it's important to start slowdown strategies as soon as possible. A cure for Alzheimer's is still the ultimate goal, but, says Snowdon, "until there is a magic bullet that can stop the plaques and tangles from growing, we're going to have to take a multipronged approach that will include things like avoiding head injuries and strokes and adding nutritional supplements like folate and antioxidants...
...violent offenders and triad gangs, and that offers Huang a bumper crop of kidneys, livers and hearts for needy patients, many from Hong Kong. Getting a kidney from death row may sound merciless, but it's swift, efficient?patients can be matched to donors in advance?and a bullet in the brain causes no damage to other organs. It's a booming business: many execution areas have extraction clinics on-site...
While the fund will also finance "bullet-proof" traditional business models, it's taken up Novak as its most radical comedy experiment and poster...
...world prospects are good going forward," Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill declared over the weekend, reporting a sense of "real optimism" among the attending officials. That outlook is considerably brighter than one released by the International Monetary Fund, but it reflects a growing sense that the bullet of global recession has indeed been dodged...