Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shake a terrible sense of deja vu. Once again, despite their efforts, the epidemic is galloping ahead: from 14 million people infected worldwide in 1993 to 17 million today. Once again, disappointing results have led U.S. researchers to postpone large-scale trials of experimental vaccines. Once again, a cure is nowhere in sight...
...playground, where it will really hurt. They're the ones who will come home to empty apartments while their mothers process words and flip burgers. And, as dozens of disappointing welfare-to-work programs have shown, the low-wage jobs available to welfare recipients are hardly a cure for poverty. The net result of forcing welfare mothers to work will be a further decline in wages for everyone -- as desperate women flood the work force -- plus a surge of commuting among the preschool...
...long way off [from a cure]," Marasco said. "But the data looks quite good. It could be the beginning of a genetic-based strategy to see if we can combat...
...With this particular treatment, it's not a cure," Marasco said yesterday. "It's a treatment strategy...
...essential and what was contingent about his own personality," writes his psychiatrist Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac. Or consider the hyperactive child who takes Ritalin and discovers that now other kids will play with him. Social acceptance in a pill. Shyness, too, may succumb to a chemical cure. Research suggests that 1 in 5 babies is predisposed to be timid because of hypersensitivity of the amygdala -- a small structure in the brain. Fixing such problems may sound like better living through chemistry, but it rattles the very bedrock of identity...