Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resources to find them amounts to an all too literal deadlock. "I am scheduled to die because I have metastatic breast cancer," says Elenore Pred, founder of the Breast Cancer Action group in San Francisco. "I'm part of the 44,000 women for whom there is no cure. But I refuse to be written off." Pred is devoting her days to lobbying for more research and better public education on the disease. As the mother of two daughters, she could leave them no healthier legacy...
...became self-conscious about what is usually a natural act. "The minute my head hit the pillow, I began wondering about which stage of sleep I was approaching," she says. "I was actually watching myself trying to doze off." Joan Menschenfreund, who coordinated the story's photography, tries to cure occasional sleeplessness by watching TV. She's careful to pick soporific fare: "I sometimes get so involved in the program that I'm more wide awake than ever." And some think that if they absolutely, positively can't sleep, then they might as well get some work done. Reporter-researcher...
...devoted Communists have no room for religion, because Mikhail Gorbachev and the rest of his party are in desperate need of a miracle. Nothing short of Saint Nicholas on his sleigh could possibly deliver a cure for the slew of ailments afflicting their country...
Instead of a cure-all, scientists say, betacarotene might just be a "marker"--a biologicalred herring which does little for the human body,yet always shows up in a healthy diet high invegetables and fiber...
Gorbachev hopes he can cure the food crisis with a combination of strong presidential leadership and help from abroad. He privately approached Western leaders at last week's Paris summit conference with a grocery list that included such staples as pork, butter and powdered milk. The Supreme Soviet has given Gorbachev two weeks to prepare emergency measures to ensure that the state receives ample supplies of food from producers. Meanwhile, grumbling consumers have no choice but to continue playing the grim new national sport: scavenger hunting...