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Ebullience does not mean blindness. Asimov is alarmed by overpopulation, with its insatiable demand for natural resources. He is not sanguine about the medical establishment's inability to find a cure for AIDS: "It may just burn itself out the way the bubonic plague did in the London of 1665. But this tragic disease moves much more slowly. It might take a century to disappear." And wars and weapons continually remind him about the fragility of Spaceship Earth. But in the Asimovian view, that fragility is an echo of his personal history. He was felled by a heart attack...
...truly a hopeless case. Yes, he could become a kind of living pull toy for his brother, flapping and clacking in his wake. Yes, they could continue playing what they have played in this film: a comedy of frustration that has its bleakly funny moments. But a cure, restoration to full human function? That...
Americans are acutely aware of cholesterol. During the presidential campaign, George Bush's doctor issued a medical history that included the candidate's total cholesterol and HDL levels (both well within the safe zone). Two books, Robert E. Kowalski's The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure and Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's Controlling Cholesterol, have been major sellers this year. The shelves of the nation's grocery stores are lined with products conspicuously labeled "cholesterol free." Oat bran, which moderately lowers cholesterol levels, is selling so briskly that some manufacturers are working around the clock to meet demand. Essentially, all these...
Hopefully, Kennedy will be able to nip his Kennedyitis in the bud. Perhaps the best cure for that ailment is defeat, something to which Kennedys are normally immune...
...Sununu's reputation as a fierce opponent of new taxes will not reassure the financial markets about Bush's ability to cure the deficit. Nor will the appointment, expected this week, of the author of Bush's flexible-freeze plan, Stanford economist Michael Boskin, to head the Council of Economic Advisers. If the next Administration will not support new taxes, even for the rich, it must slash into defense (where Bush has vowed to pursue plans for new carrier battle groups and nuclear missiles) and into middle-class entitlement programs like Social Security and farm subsidies (which Bush has promised...