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Despite the heady progress, few researchers think in terms of "curing" cancer, particularly in light of the widely held view that the body is constantly producing abnormal cells. "Let's think of control of cancer rather than cure," says Old. "Cancer is not a killing disease; what kills is progressive cancer. What we're trying to do is not eliminate cancer but establish an equilibrium between cancer and its host...
Nixon and his aides argue that devaluation alone will not cure the U.S. payments problem. They contend that American products are blocked out of many foreign markets by discriminatory trade practices. Says Shultz: "Without changes on trade, you can change exchange rates until hell freezes over, and you won't get a thing...
...until he examines the menu that he sees the words "health foods"-and by then it is a little late to run. On the shelves are strange labels: Granola, mung beans, Tiger's Milk, lecithin, all at nonsensical prices. Vitamin E, he learns, is expected to cure everything but the common cold; Vitamin C takes care of that. Adelle Davis has become the Brillat-Savarin of the counterculture. Her self-help books beckon from the paperback rack: Let's Get Well, Let's Have Healthy Children, Let's Eat Right To Keep...
...author naturally dwells longer on his successes than his missteps, but even the latter provide moments of fine humor. Having refused to accept Herriot's expert diagnosis that his cow had a broken pelvis, one stubborn dalesman proceeded to apply an ancient cure used by his father ("A very clever man with stock was me dad"). The cow turned out to be suffering only from loose pelvic ligaments, which happened to cure themselves almost at the moment the useless home remedy was applied. For years thereafter-which the author would be well advised to cover in a sequel...
...mind on something," he said. Announcing that he is going to sail off to a new home he is building on the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, the jaunty little skipper looked more tanned and fit than when he had left Capetown. The race, he confided, was "a cure in itself...