Word: cures
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...case, the fusion of our lives with theirs in one grand and pathetic cliché in which all lives look pretty much alike. We go round and round with Gilbert: Gilbert suddenly wondering if Emily might get better, if one of those white-coated geniuses will come up with a cure. Gilbert realizing that once Emily is gone, he will go too, since her way of life, however wretched, was their way of life. He is afraid for them both. In The Merchant of Venice Portia says that mercy is "twice blessed;/ It blesses him that gives and him that takes...
...early '60s were heady days. Camelot, civil rights, new frontiers, war on poverty--and a social cure for mental illness. We would close the mental hospitals, empty the snake pits. Washington would create, ex nihilo, an entirely new system of care, planting mental health centers in every hamlet. New wonder drugs would control patients' symptoms. The community would welcome back its lost souls...
...leaders have been able to communicate their confidence and essential optimism more infectiously than Ronald Reagan. But his power of positive thinking, while it lifts national morale, has not served to cure every problem. Faith in supply-side growth, for example, has done nothing to slow the runaway federal deficit. By insisting that he can at once proceed with SDI while persuading the Soviets to make deep reductions in strategic weapons, Reagan may be engaging in even more wishful thinking...
...moonwalk cure...
Perhaps so, says Jing Cheng, but not in his industry. Eating lunch by a man-made lake in the shape of a human liver, Cheng says the potential in his business is boundless: "It's very possible that in our lifetimes we'll find a cure for cancer." He pauses and then smiles. "And maybe we'll do it right here in China." --By Bill Powell/Beijing and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles