Word: cure
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That would apply equally in France, where two weeks ago Mitterrand found himself under the knife for prostate surgery and under the gun to cure his nation's political and economic malaise. But there were few takers for the argument advanced by Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy that the Bundesbank's actions proved the willingness of the Germans to "put the interests of Europe ahead of their...
...Dead Sea Scrolls are an endless source of sensationalism. Supermarket tabloids would have us believe that these ancient Jewish texts reveal visitations from outer space, the cure for AIDS and the date the world will end. In a new book somehow inspired by the scrolls, Barbara Thiering of Australia's University of Sydney tells of a Jesus who was crucified but secretly revived at the Dead Sea and who wed a woman bishop at midnight on March...
...people who knew her, she was a cure forintellectual arrogance. She knew so much, and wasso much smarter than everyone else, that shereally stood out," he said...
...strengthens that theory. Magnetic-resonance imaging of 15 schizophrenic and 15 normal men shows that the former have less gray matter in the left temporal lobe, a region believed to be important to language processing. The degree of shrinkage matched the severity of thought disorder -- implying that while a cure for the disease is nowhere close, scientists may at least be zeroing in on the cause...
...invisible legions of malevolent microbes are fighting back, and medicine is no longer so confident of winning the battle. Not only have many diseases caused by viruses, such as AIDS, proved to be extraordinarily difficult to cure, but even old, easily treated bacterial ailments do not always respond to drugs as they once did. Using marvelous powers of mutation, some strains of bacteria are transforming themselves into new breeds of superbugs that are invulnerable to some or all antibiotics...