Word: cures
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...recorded history, no disease has jumped the species barrier to infect humans, caused an epidemic, and then never threatened us again?not without the discovery of a vaccine or cure to curtail the microbe. Some diseases, such as chicken pox, gradually become endemic to man, eventually resulting, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases don't, as a rule, just...
...love with her foster brother, Bertram (Simon N. Nicholas ’07). However, she considers him too far above her in rank for marriage—until she realizes that she can use her dead father’s notes to make a medicine that will cure the King of France (graduate student Nicholas J. O’Donovan) and compel him, out of gratitude, to allow her to marry Bertram. Everything goes swimmingly until Bertram makes it clear that he has no interest in his adoptive sister and runs away from court instead of marrying her. He leaves...
...love with her foster brother, Bertram (Simon N. Nicholas ’07). However, she considers him too far above her in rank for marriage—until she realizes that she can use her dead father’s notes to make a medicine that will cure the King of France (graduate student Nicholas J. O’Donovan) and compel him, out of gratitude, to allow her to marry Bertram. Everything goes swimmingly until Bertram makes it clear that he has no interest in his adoptive sister and runs away from court instead of marrying her. He leaves...
...area Catholics. While the bishops preached the Church’s elaborate doctrines of sexual morality, they disobeyed the most basic ones. They allowed pedophilic priests to continually prey on Boston’s boys—shuffling offending priests from parish to parish, as if that would cure them. Thankfully, the coming forward of victims and additional outside pressure, has finally brought this cycle of abuse to light and has caused the Church to put its practice back in line with its preaching...
...order to defray some of the cost of bringing a prominent group to Harvard, he says that placing the event under the banner of a larger cause, such as “support for a cure for AIDS,” would attract the interest of these groups and make them willing to perform at a lower cost...