Word: emptor
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...companies have nearly two dozen Alzheimer's drugs in the works. In the next century, molecular biologists are likely to tinker with more and more of our genetic machinery, in what may be either mankind's worst folly or the most significant software upgrade of the 21st century. (Caveat emptor, users of version 1.0!) Just last month, biologists announced the discovery of mutations that accumulate in aging mitochondria, which are our cells' batteries; maybe someday they will learn how to keep our batteries from winding down. Scientists may also learn to repair our telo meres, the tiny ties...
eBAY Man admits conning $37,000 out of auction website's patrons. Caveat emptor, Netizens
...Whatever your age, they make you feel like jumping out of your chair and running a lap or two. Each author has a favorite technique. But those looking for a miracle will be disappointed. Every program requires careful diet and exercise, not to mention an end to smoking. Caveat emptor: Ponce de Leon never found the fountain of youth, and you probably won't either. But a little reading won't hurt...
...since Frank's reputation is being used to lure prospective customers to Malachy's book, a perhaps churlish caveat emptor seems in order: A Monk Swimming is no Angela's Ashes. In fairness to Malachy, he never pretends to be writing anything remotely resembling his elder brother's book. But what he thinks he is doing instead on his pages never becomes particularly clear...
...month "royalty" payment. Gray says he has acquired his special love insights after years of counseling couples and hearing anecdotes from his fans at book signings and lectures. But he is not a licensed anything other than driver, to which some mental-health professionals would say, Caveat emptor. Dorothy Cantor, immediate past president of the American Psychological Association, questions the ethics of essentially franchising a form of therapeutic practice. "B.F. Skinner did not say, 'I discovered behaviorism. Now you can have it only if you pay me for it,'" she points...