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...mitochondrial disease, nor even a surefire treatment. Sufferers are usually given vitamin and nutritional supplements, which can help slow the progress of the illness, but they aren't always effective. "If you'd asked me a year ago," says Shoffner, "I would have said that's the only option." Since then, however, some promising drugs have been developed, and will soon go into clinical trials. And a new company called Edison Pharmaceuticals, of San Jose, Calif., was founded last year for the sole purpose of coming up with drugs for mitochondrial disease...
...what can be done? The most realistic option is for the U.S. to abandon the idea of creating a new, united Iraq and instead allow the country to break apart, enabling each of the country's three groups to choose its own government and provide for its own security. It is possible that Sunni and Shi'ite regions would remain together in a loose confederation, but Kurdistan's full independence is almost certainly a matter of time...
...want to take your son from you. I just want to save his life. I can't live in Malawi. I can't move my family here. He would have to come and live with me and I would raise him as a son. But there's another option. I can just give you money, and you can raise him.' And he said no. But he still had a very hangdog expression, which crushed...
...name of a person in your phone book, and the call goes through. It?s painless, and reliable thanks to voice recognition from the brainiacs at VoiceSignal. If you don?t want to voice dial, you can press the ?No? button, which leads you to the next option, a list of phone numbers. Press ?No? again, and you get a call history, followed by a prompt to listen to voicemail. A final ?No? takes you to a screen of quick stats: battery life, signal strength and approximate used minutes...
...Voicemail is organized in a similarly linear fashion. Your first option is to hear new messages. Pass that and you?re on to your saved messages. After that, you can edit your answering options (name only or a full greeting). Best of all, you can navigate voicemail by simply answering ?yes? or ?no? to everything-you don?t have to push a single button...