Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor M. Judah Folkman--once touted as the man who would cure cancer, then maligned when his research couldn't be duplicated--this week held the first good news in a long time...
This resulted in a flood of initial publicity, capped by a New York Times cover story in which Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of DNA James D. Watson was quoted as saying that Folkman would have the cure for cancer in two years...
Watson later issued a clarification, saying he was still hopeful but backing away from promises of a cure...
...justify the risk: although it isn't as good as full-bore treatment, a shorter regimen of two pills a day significantly cuts down on transmission. But even as the news was presented, two new issues arose to complicate matters. The first was an observation that if you cure babies without curing their mothers, you will create a generation of orphans. The alternative, however, is letting the babies...
Kent's music is often marked by melancholy, like Radiohead or The Cure, but they played with such spirit as to make it equally life-affirming. The epic seven-minute-and-forty-seven-second "747" was a fitting song to close on. Markus Mustonen, the drummer, began the song by quietly patting away with brushes; by the end, he was driving an urgent rhythm with drumsticks. Sami Sirvio, the lead guitarist, broke a string about five minutes into "747," but his relentless playing never skipped a beat...