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Researchers first identified and described Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1981. Since that time, more than 70,000 Americans have been diagnosed with the disease, which has no known cure...
...complexity of the virus makes progress toward a cure extremely difficult, though doctors can often treat related illnesses. Some drugs, notably AZT, have been shown to slow the progress of AIDS or its related symptoms...
Cost containment alone won't cure the medical system. New sources of revenue must be found. Begin by doubling the federal excise tax on cigarettes. In recent years smoking has been recognized for what it is: an addiction and a health threat, often even to bystanders. This Administration championed "zero tolerance" and urged Americans to "Just say no" to other drugs. Let the next Administration commit itself to leading the U.S. away from its single most deadly habit. Cigarettes kill an estimated 300,000 Americans annually. That is 15% of the deaths in the country, far more than are caused...
...reform. The report on the crash from the presidential commission headed by Nicholas Brady (now Secretary of the Treasury) is a dead letter. The only result appears to be the adoption of "circuit breakers," which would temporarily halt trading during a steep market plunge. That is not a cure for the disease that brought...
ALLENDE'S novel focuses on the story of Eva Luna, whose name, she says, means "I am life". A natural narrator, she tells us that she was conceived as part of a cure for a native Indian who was poisoned by a snake bite. As her parents are dead, her story centers on her life in the capital city, presumably Caracas, where she works as a domestic servant. Her only companions are her adopted grandmother, Elvira, who sleeps in a coffin every night to avoid spending extra money on a bed, and her godmother, whose head, Eva says, is addled...