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Clearly, gene therapy is not yet a panacea. Anderson concedes that except for reports of individual patients being helped, "there is still no conclusive evidence that a gene-therapy protocol has been successful in the treatment of a human disease...
...Ritalin is not a panacea. It won't boost IQ or take away the learning disabilities that affect 15% of youngsters with ADHD...
...John G. Rowland had to commit $1 billion to a new convention center and stadium on its dilapidated waterfront. Meanwhile, the city--one of the nation's poorest--struggles to fund its schools. Hartford is not the only city with such skewed priorities. A new stadium is not a panacea for urban renewal. With so many more pressing needs, it is a wonder that cities continue to pay the ransoms demanded by team owners...
Jeeves, of course, is not a panacea for the difficulties of the Information Age. Questions outside the scope of Jeeves' knowledge base, such as those of a particularly specific or technical nature, tend to leave the user stranded in the glut of Internet information. Although Jeeves attempts to compensate for this behavior by submitting unfamiliar questions to popular search engines, this hardly provides a particularly useful mechanism for searching...
...while successful recruiting may offset someof the advantages of privilege in the earlyadmissions process and encourage minorities andlower-class students to think about collegeearlier, it is not a panacea...