Word: panacea
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...authorities recommend evacuation, car windows and vents should be closed and a first-aid kit packed. FEMA provides more suggestions on its website, www.fema.gov The advice may not be as appealing as a panacea pill, but to an increasingly jittery public, almost any advice is welcome...
...future, when the panacea for venereal disease is finally discovered, a new form of highly contagious and often unexpungeable affliction will excite the public’s fear: the download. Symptoms: icon blemishes, commonly found in the bottom right corner of the screen; a geologically protracted start-up delay; and the PC deathknell, “Fatal error has occurred. You will lose any unsaved information because you just had to download that pirated Backgammon software. Nice going, chump...
Cells and souls and science and promises. How does a politician balance such volatile substances? George W. Bush tried as he pondered the research spearheaded by one of America's pioneering scientists. Biologist James Thomson's wizardry with embryonic stem cells had not only raised hopes for a medical panacea but also set off the national debate on whether that potential public good provided the moral justification for the infusion of public money over the objection of many. Already, Thomson's personal balancing act--juggling scientific imperative and ethical caution, technical brilliance and moral quandary--had made...
...recent years, civic leaders have tried to engineer a Detroit Renaissance. Three imposing casinos line the city streets, touted as an urban panacea by some and a Pandora’s box by others. New leaders line the city school board, hoping to rescue floundering schools from funding cuts and a state takeover. Major businesses, such as Compuware, are moving back into the city...
...again faced with massive demonstrations, expect them to look harder for a compromise before issuing the shoot-to-kill order. None of these constraints will lead to sudden democratic reform, but University of California professor Richard Baum suspects the Olympics could give society more room to maneuver: "Not a panacea, but progress nonetheless." That careful diplomacy may already be in evidence: the day after the announcement, a Beijing court found U.S. academic Li Shaomin guilty of spying for Taiwan at a one-day trial but ordered him expelled...