Word: cures
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...ghostwriter of choice in the 1980s to the Evangelical elite, co-authoring books with Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. One day, sitting with Falwell in a car surrounded by gay protesters, he realized he should be on the outside. After 25 years of clandestinely trying to "cure" himself via exorcism, electroshock and prayer, the father of two divorced and settled down with a man named Gary Nixon. Then he began searching for a way to expiate sins committed in the service of "homophobic haters...
...because they use the higher, more muscular section of your hamstrings, which is less susceptible to injury. One believer is Dave Glowacz, who raves, "It's like riding in a lawn chair." Perhaps next year's version will come equipped with a mattress and those magic massage fingers--to cure our aches before we even have them...
Even if Donaldson can diffuse those issues, he doesn't possess a miracle cure for Aetna's woes. The company needs to increase its profits, but the public backlash against managed care has made it all but impossible to cut costs any more. HMO enrollment is slowing; medicare reimbursements are too low; and hospitals and doctors are fighting back against deep fee discounts--in some cases dropping out of networks altogether. More people are opting for flexible plans, choosing preferred-provider organizations over HMOs (see sidebar). Says Tom Ferguson, a health-care consultant at William M. Mercer: "There's less...
...writer Joshua Wolf Shenk has pointed out, we tend to have opposing views about drugs: they can kill or cure; the addiction will enslave you, or the new perceptions will free you. Aldous Huxley typified this duality with his two most famous books, Brave New World--about a people in thrall to a drug called soma--and The Doors of Perception--an autobiographical work in which Huxley begins to see the world in a brilliant new light after taking mescaline...
...classroom teaching to running the libraries at the Graystone and Williams elementary schools in San Jose when, in 1997, her speech began to slow. Doctors found she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the baseball great who succumbed to it. There is no cure for ALS; 80% of its victims die within five years of diagnosis. Yet once the diagnosis was confirmed in 1998, Dillon's first response was to write to the staff and the students' families, explaining her illness and her determination to continue working. Their support has been unequivocal. Last year...