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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years. Most reputable scientists steered clear, viewing the field as fringe medicine awash with kooks and fanatics. A researcher who showed interest could lose respect and funding. Certainly Linus Pauling lost much of his Nobel-laureate luster when he began championing vitamin C back in 1970 as a panacea for everything from the common cold to cancer. Drug companies too have been leery of committing substantial energy and money to studies, since the payoff is relatively small: vitamin chemical formulas are in the public domain and cannot be patented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scoop On Vitamins | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: An Alarming No Vote | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lesson in Compassion | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Aspirin Prevent Cancer? | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Poor Choices | 11/7/1991 | See Source »

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