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...that leads to breast cancer, we might find a cure - or a means of prevention. And if the root of a chronic illness lies buried in our DNA, the genome map could eventually lead us to a usable therapy. Of course, despite all this tantalizing promise, treatments, not to mention cures, are years, possibly decades away. Scientists involved in the mapping stress that while the latest descriptions are critical to an eventual understanding of our genetic makeup, we are still far from anything resembling a comprehensive grasp of human...
...sees me, I think I would have a conversation with the student the next day," he says. "And I would probably just mention it in passing to the dean...
...posture slack. An attorney sits nearby, trying to ignite some optimism in his client - maybe it won't be so bad - but the man knows better. He knows because he's already tested the system so many times. He's been arrested with cocaine, heroin, marijuana, not to mention various and sundry pills. He knows he's betrayed pledges to get clean, and turned his back on years of rehab. Now it's time for him to pay his debt to society once again: That's right. Back to the drug treatment center. Oh, yeah - and maybe a few months...
...Downey's is an edifying case for those concerned with the inequities of drug laws - to many, Downey (and his repeated failures to stay clean) represents the dark-side celebrity/wealth escape clause that keeps the rich and famous, not to mention the white and middle class, out of the nation's toughest prisons, and exempt from the nation's harshest drug laws. For others, including many who view imprisonment as a pointless and even dangerous punishment for drug addicts, Downey serves as a stark reminder of the strangling power of addiction, and the persistent failings of a system too bent...
...thing as being politically dead in Israel - until three days before the election, polls were showing that three-time loser Peres had a better chance than Barak of beating Sharon, who enjoyed a huge lead despite being held responsible for two decades of Israeli misery in Lebanon, not to mention the Israeli military's findings over his culpability in the case of massacres of Palestinian civilians at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut in 1982. Sharon's own popularity in this year's polls was eclipsed by that of Netanyahu, despite his having been hounded out of office...