Word: normalization
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...credits and deductions. High earners in high-tax states are most vulnerable, but anyone taking a large deduction for business expenses can fall victim. Tip: consult a pro. Avoiding the AMT may call for such radical action as accelerating income and deferring deductions, which is precisely the opposite of normal strategy...
Within three weeks, Stokes was feeling better and now, at 58, he is back at work on a normal, nitroglycerine-free routine. "I ride horses and I run tractors," he says. "You have to be in pretty good shape to do what I do." As it turned out, all 16 heart patients in Isner's trial showed improvement, and six are entirely free of pain...
...initial goals of gene therapists were to cure relatively straightforward genetic disorders, such as Huntington's disease and sickle-cell anemia, that are caused by a single defective gene. The strategy was simple: substitute a normal gene for a faulty one. But scientists quickly realized that adding genes to cells could also impart new functions to those cells. That may lead to the genetic treatment of a host of other disorders, including heart disease and many forms of cancer...
This means gene therapy cannot now be used to treat, for example, diabetics. If they were provided with a normal insulin gene that was always turned on, their insulin level would soon be dangerously high. "But the mechanism we have in mind," Wilson says, "will be like a genetic rheostat. The gene will not work until you take a pill, and the more pills you take, the more the gene will be expressed--and if you want to cut off the supply, you simply stop taking the pill...
...that you just completed, you know, a month after you completed it, you are going to look back and you say, 'good god, what the f--was I doing? I could have obviously done that a whole lot better, using this and this and this.' That's a perfectly normal reaction. I consider myself very much a rookie, and we'll see what next year kind of holds. As far as my being a veteran goes, damn this system, I'm never going to get an acting job in this country! (Laughter...