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...moral ambivalence that allowed me to see a germ of truth in one of the remarks Mansfield made last week, a germ that probably went unnoticed by partisans on both sides. If there is one standing moral flaw in homosexuality that continues to cause morally ambivalent people concern and perhaps causes them to withhold their approval of homosexual love, it is the problem of procreation. Gays have proven themselves brilliantly in all but this sphere of social existence. Procreation, then, is not an issue that gay activists can afford to be morally flippant about, especially if they want...
...Antibiotics may be able to cure at least one form of stomach cancer. British doctors report that the presence of a germ called Helicobacter pylori is necessary for the growth of certain relatively uncommon malignancies in the stomach. Tumors disappeared in five of the six patients treated for the bacterial infection...
...patients don't get to a dentist before the disease gets out of hand, the treatment used to save the teeth is not pleasant. Wielding sharp metal tools, periodontists scrape germ-laden plaque from around the teeth and under the gumline. If that doesn't work, the usual next step is oral surgery that carves away pieces of infected...
...strategy involves implanting into the gums antibiotics or other germ killers so that they can attack bacteria in the pockets where they fester. Standard antibiotic pills, which some specialists have relied on, needlessly expose the entire body to a powerful drug and have not always proved effective. Gum disease "behaves like a chronic type of inflammatory disease," explains Kenneth Kornman, a professor of periodontics at the University of Texas in San Antonio. "We have a hard time eliminating those bacteria." For that reason, dental researchers decided to concentrate the antibiotics' killing power by applying medication directly into infected areas...
...there, in the contrast between these two budgets, even the germ of a legitimate debate about the proper role of government in our society? Well, yes. Kasich grasps a few nettles Clinton avoids for fear of offending Democratic interest groups. For example, he gets $6.2 billion from limiting the Davis-Bacon Act, which is beloved by unions because it inflates wages on federal construction contracts. On the other hand, he is no more courageous than Clinton in taking on America's ludicrous farm subsidies. Could that be because farmers tend to vote Republican...