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...will attempt to intercept Halley's comet when that celestial object races around the sun in 1986; similar U.S. plans have been dropped. Even in fields where they are clearly behind, such as genetic engineering and cell biology, important to their national goal of finding a cancer cure, the Japanese have organized an effort to catch up with the West...
...early sign of this stress is school phobia, a major crisis involving fever, depression, even autism and suicide. It accounts for almost half of the mental illness among Japanese youngsters under 18 and takes an average of two years of drug therapy and counseling to cure...
...homosexual man who has had anal sex with more than 60 partners a year should not ask society to cure him of AIDS. Let the gay community fund the research for its own problems...
...that they can pay back part of their huge debts. But the Brazilians are increasingly unwilling to accept those conditions. Says João Camilo Pena, Minister of Industry and Commerce: "If the IMF gives the same medicine to all debtor nations, they will all perish from the cure." As last week's strikes and protests dramatically demonstrate, solutions to the debt dilemma that require stern sacrifices could be a formula for political chaos...
...cure is in sight. But the research already has benefited some patients. New knowledge about the immune system has inspired doctors to be more careful when treating Kaposi's to use therapies that do not lead to further suppression of the immune system. Fauci of NIH has conducted a bone marrow transplant that bolsters a patient's immune system. Along with many other researchers, he is testing the effects on AIDS patients of new forms of interferon, a component of the human immune system that can now be reproduced by genetic engineering...