Word: cures
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...most worrisome. Killing 30% of those infected and leaving the rest scarred for life, it spreads easily from person to person, especially in a population that has largely lost its immunity; mass outbreaks would swamp hospitals. While vaccination in the first days after infection offers the only cure, enough freeze-dried vaccine left over from the early 1980s remains on hand to inoculate, by some estimates, just 7.5 million people. In this state of unpreparedness, smallpox could take many lives...
Whether it was intended to help the homeless or cure cancer, donating money to charity before Sept. 11 was a form of absolution. Letters came in, people wrote checks, and they felt better. Since then, more than $1 billion has been pledged and $631 million collected to aid those affected by the terrorist attacks. In addition to being the largest in American history, the philanthropic effort also marks the first time in recent memory that Americans donated not as a way out but a way in. While estimates of those in need of direct relief range from...
...ultimate act of betrayal." Adams conceded that some of his supporters were in tears. For them, the decommissioning of I.R.A. weapons came as a bitter pill in the often painful business of making peace. But there was no question that it pushed Northern Ireland that much closer to a cure...
...real enemy is silent and deadly, a mental disorder so pervasive and persistent that it defies any quick-fix cure. Call it, if you will, the Harvard Syndrome...
...really, one begins to wonder whether the cure might be worse than the disease. After all, the victims of Harvard Syndrome, tiresome though they may be, aren’t really hurting anyone. They have insulated themselves from reality, true, but only because reality is too disheartening to bear. If we cure them, we leave them with nothing to hold onto, no support in the wide world save the hard, cold truth about their real relationship to us and to our university...