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...cities and to nongovernment organizations where the midday rest is also a tradition. However, the rite of xiuxi may have become too ingrained to be rooted out so easily. Says one Peking writer: "The directive won't change much. It's like operating on a finger to cure an ulcer...
...week's end the world's second recipient of an artificial heart was getting out of bed and sitting in a chair, eating solid foods-warm porridge and cottage cheese-and sipping that longed-for beer, which he promptly dubbed "the Coors cure." Well-wishers had sent cases of the Colorado brew and other brands, in addition to crateloads of cards, plants and bouquets, even a Cabbage Patch doll...
...Democratic Party is not doomed. In fact, this year's election may actually pave the way for an eventual Democratic resurgence. But with certain costs. For in order to become competitive at the presidential level again, it must reform its role as the party that sets out to cure social ills...
...voters' reaction to the looming deficit dilemma identifies a national ambivalence threatening to thwart any effort to cure society's ills. The public is not shielding itself from reality; polling information reveals that the electorate is well aware of the deficit's adverse affects on inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Consistently, surveys indicate that the public considers the deficit the nation's most pressing crisis. Yet further polling information suggests that the people are not willing to accept tax hikes, a reduction of loopholes or decreased social services in order to whittle away the $180 billion figure. The electorate...
When the disease first appeared five years ago, it seemed an impenetrable mystery. The best minds in medicine could not explain the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or why it mainly struck homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Nor could they begin to cure it. Six months ago came news of a breakthrough: scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md., and the Pasteur Institute in Paris had discovered a virus that seemed to be closely related to, if not the cause of, the epidemic. The finding was hailed by Secretary of Health...