Word: curing
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...little fun in your life: try dancing.” I have a sneaking suspicion she wouldn’t approve of her descendents giving up the classics to “drop it like it’s hot” instead. To cure us of our crudeness, she’d most likely prescribe…lessons. And a few students on campus are heeding her advice. Several members of the mens’ lacrosse team have been secretly learning salsa on Thursday nights, and I recently overheard a group of football linebackers scheduling their next swing class...
...working to alleviate pain at the pump as well as human suffering. They produce energy-sparing new approaches to solar power, nanolighting and even a handheld haz-mat detector. Others are doing amazing work in creating synthesized disease killers, minting silver bullets for pathogens or using stem cells to cure heart disease. On the security front, there are new analyzers, sensors and antivirus hardware that could make our cities and computer networks safer. Finally, someone invented a way to clean up the e-waste left over when all that technology goes out of date in the next minute...
There's still no cure for Parkinson's disease, of course, so anything that prevents or delays its onset would be a welcome development. Harvard researchers found that vigorous regular exercise early in adult life cut in half a man's risk of developing Parkinson's later on. Physical activity was also associated with a decline in Parkinson's in women, although the drop was not statistically significant. Still, there are plenty of other reasons--from helping the heart to improving one's mood--to get moving...
...identify genes that may be relevant for anxiety disorders, like social anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, you may be able to design treatments that react in the systems that these genes control,” he said. But such a treatment would be far from a cure-all. “It’s unlikely that there’s going to be one gene that’s the answer or that works for everybody,” Pollack said...
...eyes are on our ivory tower, noting everything from our cure-finding medical research to our Nobel Laureates to our president, foot firmly planted in his mouth. At times, the spotlight burns. It’s not easy being simultaneously lauded for academic excellence and derided for academic inflation, for instance. And the media coverage of Harvard isn’t always fair and balanced, even by Fox News’ standards...