Word: cures
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...soft drinks children consume, it's hardly a surprise that they're running around in circles. I see kids as young as 9 frequenting the espresso carts that are on nearly every corner in my town. No wonder aggressive behavior is so prevalent. A change in diet may not cure these kids, but it would certainly go a long way toward alleviating the mood swings they experience. LORNA WOLVIN Rogue River...
...part of the world, the Arab Middle East, a great tragedy results from our governments' well-intentioned attempts to cure society of extremism through education. These leaders, however, don't teach what they should to produce the values they want. They seek moderation and enforce piety. They seek citizens who value life, yet their school curriculums exalt the value of science and ignore philosophy and history and the liberal, humanistic values they embody. That is why those who excel in such a system are no less immune to the call of extremism...
...TIME: Is there a cure or vaccine for West Nile virus? Will we see one soon...
After all, we have been down this road before. When scientists reported in the mid-1990s that the absence of a hormone called leptin triggered the development of some very fat mice, it seemed that a cure for obesity was finally at hand. If these fat mice didn't make enough leptin, the reasoning went, then maybe fat people didn't make enough either. Would giving them leptin make them thin? The logic was so compelling that the pharmaceuticals firm Amgen reportedly paid tens of millions of dollars for development rights. It turned out, however, that most fat people...
...writer's easy swipe at a red-state sort he has no firsthand knowledge of. In fact, White's father Mel was an evangelical minister who ghostwrote books for Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham. Mel White was also gay and deeply closeted, undergoing electroshock and aversion therapy to "cure" his homosexuality. (He is now out and heads an organization for gay Christians.) When White was 11, he found a tape of his parents discussing his father's sexuality with psychologists and asked his father about it. "He was such a sneaky little kid," Mel remembers. "We always had a motto...