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...bulging with paintings, business may be bad and prospects none too good, baby needs a pair of shoes, and you've sworn off buying. But honest, it's just this once and there's nothing you can do about it. There's no cure for it. Fact is, you don't want to be cured...
...tragedy begins to break in on the Conboys a few weeks after Christmas, when Cate's twelve-year-old sister Em horrifies the family by taking off her clothes for the poor farm's Peeping Tom "to cure him." Then Cate's brother, who has eloped with one of the farm's wayward girls, learns the name of his wife's seducer and emasculates him. For a girl of curly-headed Cate's puritanical upbringing, all this is shocking enough, but when she finds out that daddy has been unfaithful to mother...
Silkworms are a long way from human problems, but Dr. Williams' work was largely supported by cancer research funds, because a cure for cancer may depend upon a better understanding of growth. Cancer cells grow lawlessly, defying the hormone controls that limit the growth of ordinary cells. By working out in detail the hormone system that governs the silkworm's metamorphosis. Dr. Williams has helped explain both lawful and lawless growth within the human body...
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...Fairbanks' gadget produces convincing stammering but is not intended to cure it. Its purpose is to study the whole speaking process. It also offers to experimental psychologists something they have longed for: an easy means of giving well-adjusted people safe, temporary nervous breakdowns...