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Word: curely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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What would seem most likely is for him to argue that, essentially, desperate disease requires a desperate cure. As the Unabomber manifesto put it, "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." In the Unabomber's mind, society was in desperate need of a brave and brazen savior who wouldn't let murder stand in his way. "Well, let me put it this way," Kaczynski says. "I don't know if violence is ever the best solution, but there are certain circumstances in which it may be the only solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Don't Want To Live Long: Ted Kaczynski | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...them, and that's a problem," Peters said. "They either have to go back to the funding agency and ask for more, or the deptartment has to make up the difference, or ultimately FAS would have to make that up. This is a problem we had hoped ADAPT would cure...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman and Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Glitches Beset Project ADAPT | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...grow at their normal, aggressive rate - or they didn?t grow at all. While the technology in this study is new, the theory behind it is not. "The idea of starving tumors of their blood supply is one of the leading areas of research in cancer prevention and cures," says TIME science writer Mike Lemonick. While this study doesn?t translate directly into a treatment for humans, Lemonick explains, it?s certainly a notable step toward a solution. "Nobody?s suggesting we genetically alter humans this way, but the better we understand the behavior of tumors, the more likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Welcome Infestation: Cancer-Resistant Mice | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...college, in spite of the additional burden of dyslexia, and became a successful computer salesman before starting his own mainframe business. By his mid-30s, he sold it off to begin what his family and friends thought would be a leisurely early retirement. When he told them he would cure cancer instead, they just laughed. How could a layman--even a wealthy one--do what had stumped even highly skilled scientists with Ph.D.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cure Crusader | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...with a rare genetic disorder that partly disabled his liver, his course of drugs and diet was working. The Phase I trial at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors would pump a modified cold virus into his system to correct genetic flaws, promised nothing in the way of a cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jesse and the Wayward Gene | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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