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...labor leader, Secretary of State George Shultz, a former economics professor and businessman, and National Security Advisor John Poindexter, an admiral. All three appeared to endorse lying so enthusiastically that you came away with the idea that it was not only the salvation of the Republic, but could probably cure hives as well...

Author: By Jerry Doolittle, | Title: A Strange Yearning for The Truth | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...hour or two, to forget the fact that living hell is just around the corner. You wander aimlessly up Plympton Street, mumbling something about Beowulf and macroeconomics, when you spot Adams House. If you're smart, you'll go in and see Scapine, a charming study break and timely cure for the mid-term blues. If not, it'll be another Store 24 night...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: (E)scapining | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

Behavioral practices, though clearly related to patterns of disease, are poorly understood in contemporary biomedicine. Modern medicine emphasizes treatment, cure and technology, but focuses relatively little attention on preventive medicine and health education...

Author: By Allan M. Brandt, | Title: AIDS and Behavior | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

...that the retinoblastoma team made headlines, the Muscular Dystrophy Association announced another important find. A group of scientists, led by Louis Kunkel of Boston Children's Hospital, had discovered the gene that, when defective, causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The discovery may lead to an effective treatment, even a cure, for the crippling and usually fatal disorder that afflicts 200,000 people in the U.S., most of them young boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Payoffs in the Hunt for Genes | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...find and synthesize the protein ordered by the genes, the one that prevents wild cell proliferation. This still unknown protein might one day be administered to those lacking the gene and could act to halt the disease. Eventually, advances in gene therapy might even lead to a cure, perhaps through the use of bioengineered viruses that would ferry copies of the healthy gene to the cells of a retinoblastoma victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Payoffs in the Hunt for Genes | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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