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...hour of sleep every morning, that my muscles were a bit larger and my shirts were always ironed and pressed for me; that the Mets, Knicks and Jets could win their respective league championships every year; and that there be world peace, a solution to global warming and a cure for cancer...
...first things we knew about it. Alexander Shulgin, 74, the biochemist who in 1978 published the first scientific article about the drug's effect on humans, noticed this panacea quality back then. The drug "could be all things to all people," he recalled later, a cure for one student's speech impediment and for one's bad LSD trip, and a way for Shulgin to have fun at cocktail parties without martinis...
Cerf said that working for Sesame Street is a cure for writer's block, since show creators and researchers give composers advice and fairly specific requests for songs...
...same is true of the rest of the chromosomes. Sequencing all 23 will mean the crossing of a finish line of sorts. But it will be just the start of a long, difficult process to turn the information into practical treatments that can cure or prevent human suffering...
...greatest wild card, the sector with the vastest potential and murkiest future, is biotech. Developments that will cure cancer and extend human life beyond age 150 will arrive in this century. If one enterprise were to commercialize these developments in some proprietary way, then it's easy to imagine that firm's becoming the world's largest by far. But these are matters of life and death, so it's just as easy to imagine political pressures preventing biotech from spawning the globe's biggest company...