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...mission service, my immediate senior banned traditional tribal dancing as being heathen. Today no one would dream of denying the local people their traditions. We do, however, have to battle even now, as in the past, against witch doctors and so-called healers who kill as often as they cure...
Then the Dillingers went to work to convert tribesmen who relied on charms and fetishes to fight the evil spirits. Lorraine, a nurse, used penicillin to cure yaws and iodine to treat goiters. The medical treatment and the Dillingers' radio seemed miracles to members of the Stone Age tribe: they thought the disembodied voices belonged to their ancestors...
...cure for Mexico's economic ills will involve still greater hardship. To repair its international financial position, Mexico has promised the IMF to slash its towering budget deficit from 16.5% of gross domestic product this year to 8.5% in 1983 and 3.5% in 1985. That will involve a painful pruning of personnel from the country's more than 1,000 state and quasi-government organizations, plus a sharp curtailment of Mexico's dense fabric of price subsidies. De la Madrid's announcement that he was lifting price controls on 2,700 items is only the beginning...
Manipulating the body's genes to cure disease has been a long-sought but elusive goal for scientists. The genes, discrete bits of DNA on the chromosomes in each cell, control all body activities by directing the production of essential chemicals. When the genes are intact, they send flawless manufacturing messages, and the body functions normally. But if damaged, they produce garbled instructions and hence disease. In so-called genetic surgery, doctors hope eventually to use recombinant-DNA techniques to cut out "bad"genes and substitute "good" ones. Now, though, there may be a more immediately applicable...
...Salt Lake City on Monday, Clark was clearly dying. Once a vigorous man and an avid golfer (handicap in his prime: six), Clark was suffering through the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle that inevitably leads to congestive heart failure. The only permanent cure for cardiomyopathy is replacement of the heart, but at 61 he was eleven years over the usual age limit agreed upon by surgeons for a transplant...