Word: cure
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...Harvard alumni said this week that they came up with a new way of performing classical music while sitting in a Harvard Square restaurant looking for a cure for the post-graduation blues...
...When it comes to prostate cancer, an ounce of prevention may lead to too much cure. According to a controversial mathematical analysis, routine screening of men over age 50 may lead to treatment of tumors that are growing so slowly they are unlikely to prove fatal. In those cases, the risk that surgery could cause incontinence or impotence may be greater than the risk of dying from cancer...
...cases of Type I diabetes in the U.S., the most severe form of the disease. Also known as juvenile diabetes, because it develops during childhood or adolescence, the ailment requires patients to have a daily insulin shot. The new findings, published in the journal Nature, don't indicate a cure anytime soon but could eventually lead to a vaccine...
Aiding Barry's chances is the weakness of the opposition. Kelly won office with a promise to sweep the city clean of the corruption and mismanagement that plagued Barry's last years in power. But critics say she has done little to cure the ills of Washington, where a third of the population is on public assistance. The homicide rate is only modestly lower than in 1989, when Washington earned the title "Murder Capital of the U.S."; fire-code violations may delay the opening of many D.C. public schools; and Congress, which acts as overseer to the D.C. government...
Golf is another part of the Clinton cure. The President has said he wants to break 80 before his 50th birthday, and regular golfing partners say his liberal use of the mulligan -- the free shot given to duffers who botch a stroke -- probably makes that an attainable goal. The golf course is one of the few places where Clinton can quickly shut the presidency out of his mind. He does not tolerate shop talk on the links and has said he likes the game because he can play it slowly. When an aide approached him last year on a Vineyard...