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...shoes would free us from having to wear heavy and unattractive Reeboks. But I understand that improving the school's athletic program in this manner would be costly--and perhaps unsuccessful. Instead of tackling these issues independently, I realized that every other school in the country had found a panacea: corporate sponsorship...
...panacea, of course. Electroshock's effects are short term, lasting weeks or months before depression can descend again. At $2,500 a treatment, it's also expensive, though insurance usually covers it. Antishock activists say it's just a cash cow for hospitals and that the response rates cited by the Surgeon General are inflated. In 1996, Lawrence of ect.org surveyed 41 former electroshock patients and found that 70% said the treatment had no effect on their depression. Joseph Rogers, executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, says 3 out of 4 of the electroshock patients...
...fear that insufficient counseling may lull students into a false sense of security and present RU-486 as a panacea, which it certainly...
Bessie's ultrasound tests may look good, but is the concept itself a sound one? Robert Lanza, ACT's vice president of medical and scientific development, says the technique is not a panacea but "presents exciting possibilities" that may help rescue endangered species and perhaps even reverse extinctions. Other scientists aren't so sure. They argue that such high-tech approaches are unlikely to make a significant contribution to the support of vulnerable species, especially if their habitats have been destroyed...
...whole new set of problems. Critics say the reforms put a bounty on the heads of unwanted children. They fear that timetables tied to disbursement of money may keep social workers from trying harder to rehabilitate biological parents and reunite families, because government leaders now consider adoption a panacea. "Skewed financial incentives are the single biggest problem in the entire child-welfare system," says Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. And what happens, asks Rachel Oesterle, an expert with Aid to the Adoption of Special Children, when a foster adoption fails--an incidence that...