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Vitamin E was once thought by some to be the cure for nearly everything. Observational studies suggested that moderately high doses (400 International Units, or IUs) could prevent heart disease, cancer and dementia?and make your skin glow, too. But lately scientists, using more rigorous tests, have had trouble substantiating some of those benefits...
...thing is certain: vitamin E is not the miracle cure it once seemed...
Surely this is only the beginning. I sure hope mental health is next on the agenda—we can cure Oscar’s depression and get to dealing with Bert’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. And the Count, clearly, is desperately in need of a psychological evaluation...
Concerned that Reagan's 1981 tax cut could exacerbate rather than cure the looming deficits, Stockman began to fall away from supply-side theology and line up with such pragmatists as former Chief of Staff James Baker and his assistant Richard Darman, now Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Together they battled to scale back increases in defense spending, with little success until this year. Though they helped enact a few "revenue-enhancing" measures, they could not persuade the President to consider more serious tax increases...
...solving their common problem. The group resolved to "get to the root of Africa's food and agricultural crisis" by developing crash and long-range programs. Sudan's leader, General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, told the group that Western emergency relief, "no matter how massive," could not cure the "inherent ailment in the economies of our countries." Said he: "Self-reliance is the most crucial factor if we are to address ourselves squarely and pragmatically to this issue...