Word: cure
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...well known for saying, "If the cure for cancer is forming in the mind of one of our daughters, it is less likely to become a reality than if it is forming in the mind of our sons. Until this changers, everybody loses...
There may be a cure for male grouchiness, but the patients have to be very, very grouchy. According to Willis Samson, a physiologist at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, beneficiaries of the new therapy must suffer from a hormonal disorder that makes them, (ahem) "hypogonadal". The cure: testosterone shots or pills. Though excessive amounts of the hormone hae often been associated with aggressive, antisocial behavior, Samson presented research at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Los Angeles today showing that men who have too little of the hormone are less grouchy, nervous and irritable after...
...hard to take seriously that a nation has deep problems," a former French Foreign Minister once said of the U.S., "if they can be fixed with a 50¢-a-gal. gasoline tax." True, at this point it will take more than a 50¢ gas tax to cure the deepest problem facing American government: its massive federal indebtedness. But not very much more. The Senate budget plan balances the budget in seven years by reducing the increase in federal spending from 5% a year to 3%. Even the radical attack on Medicare turns out to be a cut in the annual...
...another "cure" for baldness may lie in the announcement that scientists have located a gene for excessive hairiness. Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have uncovered the gene that causes generalized hypertrichosis. People who have the gene are born with excessive hair on their face and upper body. The condition is exceedingly rare: only about 50 cases have been reported since the Middle Ages. Men with the gene have in the past been displayed as "dog men" or "human werewolves." Scientists hope that the discovery will lead to new ways of treating baldness. No telling whether...
...times, Kfar Shaul has housed two or three Messiahs at once. "But they don't fight about it," says Kalian. "They are so sure that they are each the one and that the others will be revealed sooner or later as frauds." The hospital's job is not to cure these patients but to calm them down, sometimes using antipsychotic drugs, so that they can return home and be treated in a more familiar environment. There have been a few escapes from the facility, notably that of "Samson," a burly Canadian who demonstrated his Old Testament credentials by ripping...