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...rural area of crucial medical need in lieu of military service. Also sedulously avoided: any endorsement of group practice or prepayment for health care. Instead, the A.M.A. reaffirmed its "faith and trust in the private practice of medicine and pride in its accomplishments." That was not likely to cure anybody's ills -including those of the A.M.A...
...hung his play. Helena is the orphaned ward of the Countess of Roussillon, and is in love with the Countess' son Bertram, who is above her in station. When he goes to the King's court, she follows. The King has been pronounced incurably ill, but Helena promises to cure him in return for the hand of any lord she chooses. The King recovers in two days, and she picks Bertram, who wants none of her. He is forced to marry her, but leaves at once to fight in the Italian wars, and sends her a message: "When thou canst...
...modest man. Khorana emphasizes that his man-made gene is relatively crude. It lacks, for example, the coded signals that start and stop the production of protein. But his work has brought closer the day when artificially created genes may be used to replace defective ones in order to cure such genetic diseases as hemophilia and muscular dystrophy. Another possibility, Khorana concedes, is "the genetic planning of individuals-tailoring people to fit patterns, turning out athletes or intellectuals." But, he adds, "it is a very very long time...
...centuries. Thank goodness Lister, Pasteur and Salk didn't feel that way. What bloodbath would India have suffered had Gandhi turned from pacifism to violence after five years? If you had an ill or handicapped child, would you destroy doctors and hospitals because they could find no immediate cure...
...goes wrong with the call, one can no longer seize the receiver and use it to bludgeon the instrument into oblivion. The hands-free public phone may eventually replace many of the traditional booths in big cities. Though its sturdy, simple construction should frustrate vandalism, it is obviously no cure-all for all of Ma Bell's problems; while checking out the four new phones at Pennsylvania Station recently, a traveler discovered that two were out of order...