Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time the newest AIDS medications become available even to rich patients, most of today's 23 million sufferers will be dead, and many millions more will be yearning for a cure. But there are low-tech measures available now that can save millions of lives, even before a vaccine is found. Education, literacy and social justice will make the world's poor less susceptible to infection. Even the self-interested West cannot afford to sit back and watch the number of infected climb while scientists seek medical solutions. Rich nations have to contribute to prevention efforts throughout the world right...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Although it sounds like a 19th Century cure-all, "Dr. Brown's Home Drug Testing System," a pre-packaged set of plastic tubes and a urine sample cup has won FDA approval as the first drug-testing kit for home use. Translation: parental use. While the $30 device, expected in the stores in about six weeks, may never "empower the individual citizen," as inventor Dr. Theodore Brown promises, its ability to detect cocaine, heroin, marijuana, PCP, amphetamines and morphine with a mail-in urine sample is bound to spark a storm of controversy. Customers need only place...
...students, our parents burned with a desire to cure the world's social ills. Eventually, as baby boomer adults, they became the "me" generation. Already, we act with indifference to humanitarian crises such as the one confronting us in Zaire. We can only speculate what label our generation will earn...
...DeWitt laid out our comprehensive editorial plans that Ho realized what decision had been made. "Does that mean I'm Man of the Year?" he gulped. "That makes me very uncomfortable." Ho relaxed when convinced that his experiments with the new antiviral "cocktails" would not be touted as a "cure" and that we would also be profiling other prominent scientists...
RONALD REAGAN Back at the ranch, he'll recover slightly when a cure for Alzheimer's is discovered. --Jim Hecker...