Word: cures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty sure bet. A sharp outcry from the country's militant left is expected over the retention of U.S. bases in the zone, but then much of the Panamanian left (as well as the right) is in exile. But many Panamanians, perhaps unrealistically, look to the treaty to cure many of their national ills?including a zero growth rate. Says Nicolas Ardito Barletta, Minister of Planning and Economic Policy: "This will create a perfect situation for a lasting boom...
...Senators have more reason to want a cure for cancer than Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy. In 1973 his son Teddy, now 15, had a leg amputated because of a bone malignancy. But last week, presiding over a crowded, acrimonious Senate subcommittee hearing on Laetrile, Kennedy showed little patience with supporters of the alleged anti-cancer drug. Facing four of Laetrile's leading advocates-three of whom have been convicted of conspiring to smuggle and distribute the apricot-pit extract into the U.S.-Kennedy asked each in turn whether he would "stop, halt and cease raising false hopes...
Confronted with the scientific evidence, they have now shifted to philosophical justifications for the drug with their "freedom of choice" argument. When I use medicine. I prefer a cure for my illness, and not an expression of my philosophical rights...
...part about it is that for an individual to leave orthodox treatment is to choose to leave their only real chance for survival. It is suicide we're talking about." The FDA has cases of women with cervical cancer who refused surgery, which has a 65% cure rate, in favor of taking Laetrile, and died. Similar cases are cited by Harvard Neurosurgeon H. Thomas Ballantine, a past president of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He calls Laetrile "pure quackery." Says Illinois State Representative Eugenia Chapman: "Persons victimized by cancer should not be twice victimized...
...film is a little self-consciously poignant. It carries its point as if it were a burden-which, to Germans especially, it undoubtedly is. Jacob's only reprieve is in his imagination. He tells his niece a fairy tale about a commoner who cures a princess's illness by bringing her what she thinks is a cloud-a pillow-sized mass of cotton (an analogy, perhaps, to Jacob's trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble...