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When methadone was first introduced 24 years ago, it was hailed as a magic bullet aimed at the heart of heroin addiction. A neat, clean medical solution to a social problem. It has proved to be something less than that. Methadone is a treatment, not a cure, for addiction, and an imperfect one at that. But for some 100,000 of the country's half-million heroin addicts, it offers an alternative to shooting up as well as the possibility of a productive life...
...news conference announcing his decision, Tsongas described the state as "in a free-fall" and said the cure to its problems depend on actions by political leaders, business leaders and the media...
...There are no miracle-cure candidates," Tsongas said. "The problems we face are not resolvable by any governor if there is no leadership in other critical sectors, both public and private...
Jeeves, the butler, is the sure-five cure for hangovers, lack of fashion sense and meddling aunts. The play depicts how Reginald Jeeves, a gentleman's gentleman, first meets his employer Bertram "Bertie" Wooster and starts to run his life...
...Anybody who says we've got this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute...