Word: cure
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Most important, the problems connected with crime -- inadequate schooling, unemployment, drugs, unstable families -- must be addressed as part of America's prison crisis. "Look, I'm not a bleeding-heart liberal; I'm a realist," says Singletary. "But the cure for our crime is not prison beds and juvenile boot camps. We need to do something about juveniles at the school level before they get here...
Only a few years ago, viewers of very, very late-night TV were treated to a mock talk show more entertaining than most of the real ones. The host of the show was Lyle Waggoner, and its purpose was to tout a purchasable cure for impotence. Here was celebrity hawking at its historic low: an infomercial for a bogus product endorsed by a TV "star" whose glory days (as The Carol Burnett Show cast member who most resembled George Hamilton) came during the Nixon Administration...
...including the top-secret Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb -- were reorganized to serve the period of economic growth (and the uneasy peace) that followed. Under a philosophy outlined by Vannevar Bush, science adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, the huge flow of public dollars allocated to cure diseases and fight the cold war was distributed according to a chaotic system dubbed "scientific pluralism." Basically this meant that the money was funneled through review boards manned by scientists, who gave it to researchers proposing projects considered worthy. The system led to quite a bit of waste and overlap...
...what it does -- get into the lung," says Crystal, who plans to begin a new set of trials with the virus in the next month or so. One of his challenges is to render the adenovirus harmless and keep it from spreading out of control. "We want to cure cystic fibrosis," he says. "We don't want to infect the whole town...
Impressive as the experiment was, scientists knew that the girls had been treated but not cured. The altered blood cells died out after several months, and the patients had to return to the hospital periodically to repeat the procedure. To achieve a full cure, gene therapists would have to get to the source of the problem: the long-lasting stem cells that reside in bone marrow * and produce all the white blood cells that circulate in the bloodstream...