Word: panacea
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...Algeria's European clients. Bendjedid recently implemented financial reforms aimed at wooing foreign funds. If democracy continues to flower, investment will be forthcoming, opening up new jobs and industries. But if daily life does not improve for the country's 26 million residents, Algerians may mistake fundamentalism for a panacea and sign on to a far vaguer -- but undoubtedly more radical -- agenda...
Such educational experiments are not a panacea, but already they are yielding some symptomatic relief for patients. At Long Beach, the residents' experiences as patients-for-a-day have prompted administrators to accelerate the hospital's admissions process: it now takes 15 minutes or less. Other results are harder to measure but just as significant. Robert Stambaugh admits that he felt "self-conscious and silly" during his brief stint impersonating a patient at Uniformed Services. But two years later, he drew on the experience to summon up sympathy for an obstreperous patient whose brain had been injured...
Even if follow-up studies show that aspirin really does protect against cancer, doctors warn that it will never be a substitute for exercise, a low- fat, high-fiber diet or not smoking. Too many heart-disease patients have latched on to aspirin as a panacea and as an excuse to avoid changing lethal habits. The latest findings will probably, alas, tempt others to do the same...
...okay if transportation is provided for school transfer. It's also acceptable if government monitors the level of minorities in schools, and if it fully informs parents of their options in a choice program. But even if these conditions are met, choice must not be regarded as a panacea for American education...
Bear gallbladders fetch about $18,000 each in Asia, where they are converted into tablet form and taken as a panacea. Conservation officials are worried that high prices for bear parts will bring an increase in illegal bear killings. Most endangered is the grizzly, of which only 1,000 are left in the continental U.S. But not only bears are taken -- sometimes customers are too. Many dealers pass off pig gallbladders as the genuine article...