Word: curing
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...beta" versions of its new XP operating system due out this fall, have a "serious vulnerability" that lets hackers take control of victims' machines. Microsoft, which is making patches available for Windows 2000, has urged consumers to "take action immediately" to fix the glitch. And it is promising to cure the problem before XP's rollout...
...something profoundly icky about cloning embryos—but there are also a lot of very bad arguments being used to attack it, and when medical advances might lie in the balance, it’s hard not to sympathize with victims who desperately seek a cure...
LESS IS BETTER Menopausal women who find the cure for hot flashes and night sweats worse than the symptoms, take heart. A study has found that low-dose hormone-replacement therapy--0.3 to 0.45 mg of estrogen, instead of the traditional 0.625 mg--is just as effective and has fewer side effects. Combined with progestin, researchers say, low-dose HRT poses no increased uterine-cancer risk and may reduce any potential increased breast-cancer risk. Although the FDA has yet to approve a packaged low-dose formula, doctors can get creative with available tablets...
...high schools across the U.S.; they are bound to be as reckless as any other horny teenager. Why not? They have grown up in a time when pharmaceutical firms seem to have no shortage of HIV wonder drugs, when Bill Gates is spending $100 million to find a cure, when a Republican President names an openly gay man to run the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. Getting HIV seems not so much a death sentence as an annoying pill-taking regimen. The gay press is filled with delightful ads for HIV medications that depict healthy, happy-looking guys...
...back-to-back single-double-triple games? Big whoop. Suzuki rifles a one-hopper from the right-field wall to home plate? Yawn. Suzuki is on pace to break George Sisler's 81-year-old record of 257 hits in a season? Zzzzzzzz. Suzuki imprisons Saddam Hussein, discovers a cure for AIDS and beats up Mike Tyson? You expected less...