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...channel 7 management were to consider the advice of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, two old pros who know something about the TV news business, they might have shaken up their newscast in an entirely different manner. The two veterans would believe the station's cosmetic cure-all is the wrong way to remedy an ailing local news show...
...threeyear, nearly $100 billion tax increase two weeks ago reassured Wall Street that the problem would at least be addressed. By lobbying all out for the bill, Reagan proved that he has moved away from the supply-side zealots, whose views of lower taxes as an economic cure-all had dominated the early months of the Administration. The President's tendency now is toward a far more traditional Republican philosophy that stresses holding down deficits. Congress showed commendable courage as well in raising taxes at the start of an election campaign...
...most extraordinary creative partnerships hi rock. There is between the partners now the usual portion of blame and bitterness and confusion. All the clarity comes in Richard's music. He sings: "It's so hard to find/ Who's going to cure/ The Heart of a Man in Need." Linda sings: "It's only the pain/ That's keeping you sane/ And gives you the mind to travel on." And together: "Let me ride on/ The Wall of Death/ ... This is the nearest/ To being alive...
...most effective weapon against herpes would be an agent that activated the immune system before an attack. Once the virus has tunneled into the ganglia, it may be too late for a cure. "You would need a pretty remarkable drug to attack the virus genes without damaging the host cells," explains Notkins. Bernard Roizman at the University of Chicago is one of many researchers engaged in the international search for a herpes vaccine. The main challenge, he explains, is to create a substance that poses none of the dangers of the virus itself. "It can't cause cancer, for instance...
Since there is no cure, frustrated herpes sufferers will try almost any potion or palliative. Some herpetics regularly consume buttermilk, vitamins, herbs or lysine, an amino acid that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John...