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...children in different parts of the nation--doesn't hold with remarks impugning his morality. During an appearance with Zhirinovsky on a live talk show, rival politician BORIS NEMTSOV suggested that the extremist had contracted syphilis from the 200 women he told Playboy he'd slept with. "We can cure you," said Nemtsov. "We have two simple injections." In reply, Zhirinovsky threw juice at Nemtsov. Nemtsov threw juice back. The scuffle escalated, and after the show, formerly placatory host ALEXANDER LYUBIMOV was said to have been reduced to punching Zhirinovsky in the face...
...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...