Word: cured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...urging of President Reagan, Congress is presently flirting with the line-item veto--the cure, we are told, to all our budgetary woes. It appears, after all, to be a simple remedy to a complex problem. As deficits continue and as budget deadlocks seem to recur annually, congressmen from both parties are starting to wave their hands, yearning for the White House to assume an additional power--and take away from them a frightful responsibility...
However, despite its simplicity, the line-item veto promises less, both to Congress and to the cause of a balanced budget, than the panacea it has been made out to be. It is too superficial and has too many potential side effects to cure our budgets' ills. Congress should defer to its better judgement and resist this instance of political quackery...
...plague mentality seems an anachronism in the elaborately doctored postindustrial U.S. The discussion in recent years has gone in the other direction: Has medicine got so good that it is keeping people alive past their natural time? At a moment when rock fans of the First World undertake to cure a biblical scourge like the Ethiopian famine with 24 hours of music bounced off a satellite, AIDS, implacable and thus far incurable, comes as a shock. It arrives like a cannibal at the picnic and calmly starts eating the children...
...University of Wisconsin, Madison, reported in the journal Nature that they had mapped in exquisite atomic detail the structure of a human cold virus called HRV14. Their achievement marked the first time that the shape of an animal virus had been so precisely determined, and raised hopes that a cure for the common cold might be possible after...
Armed with this knowledge of the viral topography, scientists, at least in theory, can begin closing in on a cure for the common cold. For example, a lab-made antibody designed to slide into the canyon and block it would prevent the virus from attaching to a cell. One problem with that approach, researchers say: antibodies are too large to enter the canyons. But another approach is possible, involving the key (the receptor) instead of the lock (the canyon). By developing a drug that somehow coats the receptors, scientists may prevent the virus from joining the cell...