Word: cures
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...called an "E-meter") that was designed to measure electrical changes in the skin while subjects discussed intimate details of their past. Hubbard argued that unhappiness sprang from mental aberrations (or "engrams") caused by early traumas. Counseling sessions with the E-meter, he claimed, could knock out the engrams, cure blindness and even improve a person's intelligence and appearance...
Harriet Baker learned the hard way about Scientology's business of selling religion. When Baker, 73, lost her husband to cancer, a Scientologist turned up at her Los Angeles home peddling a $1,300 auditing package to cure her grief. Some $15,000 later, the Scientologists discovered that her house was debt free. They arranged a $45,000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tap for more auditing until Baker's children helped their mother snap out of her daze. Last June, Baker demanded a $27,000 refund for unused services, prompting two cult members to show...
...antibody does not provide a guaranteed cure. In the study, 30% of the patients receiving the treatment died (vs. 50% of those who did not receive it). Still, HA-1A appears to be one more high-tech weapon U.S. soldiers can count...
...getting better defense," Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "If we're going to get better it's defense that will cure us. Offense will take care of itself...
...part of a community that has been at war for over 10 years," he says. McKean says that the war against AIDS has left me than 100,000 dead, but that the government has spent only $1 billion to research a cure for the deadly disease...