Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McFadden would have done more accurate research before biasing an already misinformed public. AIDS is a deadly disease worth the serious attention of our government and health care agencies. The sexuality of the person who contracts it ought to be irrelevant to the discussion of a search for a cure. But it was precisely because it was not irrelevant in the minds of legislators, that it has taken so long for the government to respond to the epidemic proportions of this disease. Groups like ACT-UP were formed to compel our elected officials, through radical activism, to take action...
Gund, who has been blind since 1970, began losing his sight in his late 20s because of a degenerative disease of the retina with no known cure. Since then, the Gunds have been active in funding research for a cure...
Behind the political smoke screens and accusations lies the naked reality that neither party provides the cure for the fundamental disease gnawing away at education. The President offers band-aids to stem the horrific bleeding, while the former senator amputates the limb...
Today, however, people no longer wait longingly for the day when technological breakthroughs will revolutionize life and cure all its ills. In fact, the looming shadow of technology giant Microsoft seems to scare people more than impress them. We have seen many of the technologies first displayed to Disneyland tourists--including microwave ovens and dishwashing machines--pop up in our own houses, but the euphoria which many imagined would accompany them has failed to arrive. We now live in the House of the Future, but many would rather return much of contemporary life to a display case. That...
Ellison isn't sure what she wants to do with her life after college. Graduate school is probably in the works, but she also hopes that by that time, research may have found a cure for spinal injuries...