Word: curing
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...speak, swallow or breathe, while usually leaving the mind untouched. It's MND that confines physicist Stephen Hawking to a wheelchair and last month claimed the life of Australian artist Pro Hart. Experts' understanding of the disease remains sketchy, and riluzole falls way short of being a cure: at best, it might prolong a patient's life for a year...
...CHALLENGE The X-Men have a problem. Not the threat of Magneto or the fact that a pharmaceutical company has come up with a "cure" for mutancy (jeez, can't we all just get along?). The issue is the loss of Singer (to Superman), who directed the first two movies, and his replacement by Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Red Dragon), who hasn't yet shown Singer's talent for the shadowy action sequences that are the franchise's specialty. Oh, and Frasier Crane is the Beast...
...Against the possibility of a world of walking-dead overachievers, Viswanathan’s recommended cure turns out to be: more Harvard...
...year, their main theme will be attacking the prescription drug bill that has now gone into effect. All of which shows that no matter what happens in innovative states like Massachusetts, Washington will continue to be a symptom of the ailing health care system rather than any kind of cure...
...less subtle: when lighting designer Christopher Akerlind puts the main characters in squares of light across the stage from each other, the separation is as complete and cruel as a wall could be. “Orpheus X” is a play of loneliness and pain whose only cure, the final scene seems to suggest, is silence and forgetfulness. Until that point of silence, the play is as frantic and unrelenting as its characters. While it doesn’t always reach the emotional resonance it seeks, it is always compelling. —Reviewer Elisabeth J. Bloomberg...