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...Crime is a serious problem at Harvard," Taylor said. "[Having security programming] would save the University a lot of liability, a lot of headache. Prevention is the best cure and there's no cure better than security classes...
...conservationists are outraged by what they suspect is Somphong's long-term goal: to harvest and sell tiger penises and other body parts that bring high prices in Asia. Scientific evidence to the contrary, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine insist that crushed tiger bones and tiger genitalia can cure everything from arthritis to impotence. By most estimates, only about 5,000 tigers are left in the wild, largely because of the price they bring poachers. Despite an international prohibition against the trade, a whole tiger can fetch more than $10,000 on the black market in China and Southeast Asia...
...almost exclusively affects black Americans, the National Institutes of Health announced today. The drug, hydroxyurea, already in use as a cancer treatment, reduced sickle cell attacks so dramatically that NIH ended its trials four months early and today notified 5,000 doctors of the treatment. There is still no cure for the disease, but the new treatment will ameliorate the painful symptoms of sickle cell anemia, which often lead to hospitalization. About 8 percent of black Americans carry the gene that causes sickle cell, an inherited disease common among people with ancestors from Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean...
Quite understandably, Geddes is becalmed with writer's block. Becalmed with impotence too, though the beautiful Victoria, a collector of lovers, works tirelessly to cure him. Nicholson's tale is not so much a novel as a collection of loosely related fiction riffs, but it does not suffer at all from its lack of connective tissue. His imaginings are always peculiar, frequently droll, and on several occasions funny, about car freaks, salesmen, book critics, sex and the alarming sort who acquire the complete works of novelists. Worth collecting; first editions available...
...cure our ills, they have also made them worse...