Word: cures
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...getting modern medical care to the people in Africa who need it most, Anthony Okello is not the solution that comes immediately to mind. He's a medicine man, apprenticed as a teenager to the wandering witch doctor who treated him for a fever that other doctors couldn't cure. When a patient goes to Okello complaining of rashes and diarrhea, as Lucy Ajam did recently, he recognizes the typical symptoms of AIDS for what they are. He immediately sent Ajam to the nearest hospital to start her on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs)--an approach even a traditionalist like Ajam heartily...
...Google and MSN having built better webtraps, AOL is preparing to reinvent itself to catch up. Its parent company, Time Warner (which is also TIME's parent), announced it will present a new plan for AOL on Aug. 2. The 2000 merger with AOL was supposed to be a cure for Time Warner's slow-growth old-media businesses, but it has been a financial disaster, costing Time Warner nearly $100 billion in market value. AOL's inability to remake itself into a more Google- or Yahoo!-like business has been a drag on Time Warner's stock price, which...
...very exclusive. Every year Eton awards scholarships to poor children from state schools in England, and has instituted other programs to make the school available to the underprivileged. Eton's reputation as an enclave for the wealthy is undeserved. Ann O'Doye London Next Best Thing to a Cure time reported on the growing demand in Europe for alternative treatments for illness [June 26]. I've been a complementary practitioner for more than eight years and have successfully treated many patients who had tried everything that mainstream medicine had to offer, sometimes repeatedly, but whose conditions still remained painful...
...this proposal and others at a social- networking summit last week in Washington. But there is no easy solution when it comes to confirming information about teens, only some of whom have credit cards or a driver's license. Industry watchers say Social Security numbers may not be a cure-all either, in part because of the global nature of these sites--the biggest of which, MySpace, said last week it is expanding into 11 other countries. Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal didn't accept all the naysaying: "Don't tell me it can't be done...
...told him with characteristic sternness to throw off his invalidism by force of will. He ordered the boy to "make your own body." According to Theodore's sister, Theodore "resolved to make himself strong," to turn his back on his "nervous and timid" childhood and embrace manhood. The cure would come by way of sports and outdoor activity, mountains to be climbed and harsh weather to be endured...