Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Drug czar Bennett agrees with those correctional officers who believe shock incarceration is no cure-all for street crime, though it can help "build character." It seems to have the most effect on nonviolent young men for whom crime has not become a hardened way of life. The program appears to work best for youngsters who might have been helped just as much by a resolute kick in the pants and some productive community service and victim reparation. Perhaps that is a more realistic way of coping with the burgeoning problem of youthful crime...
...underground trials to an intent crowd of some 500 predominantly gay men in San Francisco. Although many of the trial's volunteers, including Barnett, showed a marked decrease in activity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, Delaney said, Compound Q could not be considered a cure. But the desperation of the epidemic guarantees that underground drug trials will continue; AIDS activists say at least two dozen such experiments are under way across...
...activists has resulted in the FDA's allowing wider use of such experimental AIDS drugs as r-erythropoietin, which is used to treat AIDS- related anemia, before studies have been completed. Compound Q faces much more rigorous testing despite the hint of promise. "It's not a one-shot cure," Delaney warned the packed community meeting. But Bob Barnett, a true believer in his right to receive another dose of Compound Q, leaped to his feet with the rest of the crowd to give Delaney a standing ovation...