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...grow in number. And, even as we turn inward, it is not to celebrate the individual, but to confirm the complementary social and personal alienation. Such pessimism is a natural reaction to a pretty gloomy future says Travers, pointing to the economic situation and nuclear arms race. Although no panacea exists, there are small changes to be won. For this folk singer, such a victory could be won in November with Reagan's defeat. No, she says everything will not change. And, no, Mondale does not have all the answers. There is, however, a choice here...
...director of Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD): "I just know that no matter what you do, you're still going to have kids drinking and driving." That grim fact is no excuse for not trying. But it provides a cautionary note against viewing the current proposal as a panacea, any more than was the Noble Experiment: Prohibition. -By William R. Doemer. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Neil MacNeil/Washington, with other bureaus...
budget deficit is not the cause of all the world's economic problems, nor would reducing our deficit be a panacea...
...marathoner was game for anything, and his doctors put him on iron supplements. Although Clements' theory is not endorsed by many s experts, Salazar has embraced it as a panacea. He finds evidence of improvement. Although he finished third in a 10,000-meter race in Eugene, Ore., on April 7, he was encouraged by his time-27:56-and his strength at the finish. Whether a lack of iron is the answer, Salazar wants to believe that the problem lies in his body, not his head. Says he: "I had so many people telling me it was mental...
...moving to get rights to strip-mine the Lakota land, one of the poorest in the country, a bare plot of 4500 square miles in southwest South Dakota. Their goal is the fantastically lucrative uranium bed that sits under the land and that could, if properly cultivated, prove a panacea to the tribe's poverty. It could mean, among other things, hundreds of thousands of dollars for education and jobs. It could also scatter acres of carcinogenic dust and toxic uranium across the tribe's reservation...