Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That incident inspired Anderson. "If Edsall thought it was an interesting idea," he recalls, "then by God it was an interesting idea. I decided to figure out how to cure sickle-cell anemia by changing genes...
...genetic test that could tell them what diseases they were likely to suffer later in life, nearly as many people said they would prefer to remain ignorant (49%) as said they would like to know (50%). Most people strongly oppose human genetic engineering for any purpose except to cure disease or grow more food. A substantial majority (58%) think altering human genes is against the will...
...journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that the man the Bible calls his brother James was the eldest child. Crossan argues that Jesus did not cure anyone but that he did "heal" people by refusing to ostracize them because of their illnesses...
...even Warren, the nation's leader inunderstanding how to use radiation to cure humanills, proposed studies that would expose humantest subjects to dangerously high doses ofradioactive isotopes...
...searched the hospital to find the man. There was no one around, and the security guards hadn't seen anyone come or go. "After the visit, Chris told me his prayers had been answered. I worried for a while that he thought the angel had cured his cancer. I realize now it wasn't the cure, it was the blessing he brought with him. It was the peace of mind." Chris died two days later...