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...many years now, I have had a secret addiction. It is an increasingly common problem, though unknown until about a decade ago, and one for which doctors and psychologists have no cure. If religion is the opium of the masses, this might be said to be the lithium...
Most important, the problems connected with crime -- inadequate schooling, unemployment, drugs, unstable families -- must be addressed as part of America's prison crisis. "Look, I'm not a bleeding-heart liberal; I'm a realist," says Singletary. "But the cure for our crime is not prison beds and juvenile boot camps. We need to do something about juveniles at the school level before they get here...
Only a few years ago, viewers of very, very late-night TV were treated to a mock talk show more entertaining than most of the real ones. The host of the show was Lyle Waggoner, and its purpose was to tout a purchasable cure for impotence. Here was celebrity hawking at its historic low: an infomercial for a bogus product endorsed by a TV "star" whose glory days (as The Carol Burnett Show cast member who most resembled George Hamilton) came during the Nixon Administration...
...including the top-secret Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb -- were reorganized to serve the period of economic growth (and the uneasy peace) that followed. Under a philosophy outlined by Vannevar Bush, science adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, the huge flow of public dollars allocated to cure diseases and fight the cold war was distributed according to a chaotic system dubbed "scientific pluralism." Basically this meant that the money was funneled through review boards manned by scientists, who gave it to researchers proposing projects considered worthy. The system led to quite a bit of waste and overlap...
...what it does -- get into the lung," says Crystal, who plans to begin a new set of trials with the virus in the next month or so. One of his challenges is to render the adenovirus harmless and keep it from spreading out of control. "We want to cure cystic fibrosis," he says. "We don't want to infect the whole town...