Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some things just don't go together: oil and water or, for journalists, long- range plans and breaking news. Few have experienced the latter truism as dramatically as Washington science correspondent Dick Thompson, who reported this week's "inside story" on how the Clinton Administration constructed its health-care package...
...neighboring Arab states, like Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf oil states, most of which are still officially at war with Israel, will have little incentive to remain hostile, since they can no longer be accused of betraying the Palestinians. Moderate Arab states such as Egypt and Morocco may still be targets for subversion and terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists, crying louder than ever that their governments are selling out to the Zionist enemy and its prime backer, the U.S. But those governments will be able to reply convincingly that the fundamentalists are being more Palestinian than Arafat; any deal good...
...some of it private investment but much of it government loans and grants. Eytan Gilboa, professor of international relations at Hebrew University, says this time Israel will be forced to avoid + simply handing the U.S. the bill: "Much more effort will be required to mobilize financial resources from the oil-rich states in the gulf and from Europe and Japan." But American officials readily acknowledge that the U.S. will have to be the principal banker, supplying American money and rounding up more from financial partners and world institutions...
...popular movie Lorenzo's Oil did more than tout a possible cure for a rare and fatal hereditary disease. Based on a true story, the 1992 film also vilified the medical establishment for being slow to accept the possibility that a combination of vegetable oils developed by Augusto and Michaela Odone might have improved the condition of their son Lorenzo, 14, who suffers from a degenerative nerve illness called adrenoleukodystrophy. Now a two-year study from France concludes that the remedy, named for the Odones' son, is worthless -- at least for the milder, adult form of the ailment. Writing...
Everyone agrees that Lorenzo's oil cuts down on the level of toxic compounds in the blood that are understood to cause the disease. But the oil cannot reverse nerve damage, often resulting in blindness and paralysis, that has already taken place. Nonetheless, Dr. Hugo Moser of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, believes Lorenzo's oil may delay the onset of symptoms. "We know that it's not 100% preventive," says Moser, who is conducting a five-year study of 80 boys who have inherited the gene for the disease but started taking Lorenzo's oil while they...