Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distraught mothers, there is no cure, and mystery only makes our trial worse...
...behind the next step to an easier, happier life for the yuppie jet-setter, lay a deeper discovery--that the media tends to leap without looking. What the news failed to discuss amidst all their accolades were the conditions in which this amazing cure was found. One elderly woman whose biological clock differs from those of most people...
...other words--with all due respect to the incredibly generous woman who allowed herself to be used as a human guinea pig for 114 days--so far, this cure has been proven to work only on an abnormal sample. The researchers explained that the reason they chose this hapless woman was that her unique biological clock made her body experience what is the middle of the night for most people in the early evening. This way, they could conduct their research in the afternoon rather than in the middle of the night...
While hardly settling every issue, the court's action encourages employers to push ahead with affirmative action to cure past discrimination. "It will give us a feeling of not being out there fighting the battle all alone," says O.J. Silas, director of affirmative action for Hennepin County (Minneapolis). "This is the clearest thing I've heard in a long time that the courts do mean what they said and support the principles of affirmative action...
...held last week at the cavernous Palais des Congres in Paris, was considerably more subdued. Although the world's leading AIDS experts were among the more than 2,500 doctors and scientists in attendance, they bore few encouraging tidings. Speaker after speaker acknowledged that neither a vaccine nor a cure is in sight for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease that destroys the body's ability to combat infection. Moreover, they said, AIDS is still spreading and poses a threat around the globe. Among the findings reported...