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...Fifteen million Americans know this in their bones. They are victims of a group of more than 40 disorders that arise when the immune system launches a sustained attack against the body. Ailments as diverse as psoriasis, multiple sclerosis and Type I diabetes are all caused by an immune system run amuck. No one knows what initiates any of these chronic diseases or how they might be cured, but researchers have lately made significant headway in developing drugs to treat them--drugs that arguably represent the first substantial advancement in the field in 50 years...
...this country must become a major national priority, and not something we just pay lip service to. That means the federal government must accept its responsibility to adequately fund it. Currently, we are providing only $13 billion a year on aid to post-secondary students and contribute less than fifteen percent of the operating costs of our nation's colleges and universities. If we can afford to give the Pentagon a $22 billion increase in its budget-as we did this year--surely we can afford to increase student aid for higher education by $13 billion. If we can afford...
...course of just fifteen minutes, Frazier, who mans the Amtrak information counter, explained the inner workings of Boston's subway system to harried passengers approximately 10 separate times...
...Fifteen million Americans know this in their bones. They are victims of a group of more than 40 disorders that arise when the immune system launches a sustained attack against the body’s own tissues. Ailments as diverse as psoriasis, multiple sclerosis and Type I diabetes are all caused by an immune system run amok. No one knows what initiates any of these chronic diseases or how they might be cured, but researchers have nonetheless made significant headway in developing new drugs to treat them-drugs that represent the first substantial advancement in the field in 50 years...
...diagnosis of pancreatic cancer would be devastating to any of us, bringing with it the horrors of debilitating chemotherapy and a slim chance of surviving the next five years. Fifteen years from now, however, you might not even bat an eye at the news. Your doctor will simply hand you a capsule packed with millions of sensors, each programmed to seek out and kill the cancer cells in your body. A few weeks and a dozen doses later, your tumors will be gone--destroyed while you were going about your daily routine...