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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...citizens of the twentieth century, we have seen the mixed blessings of the relentless march of scientific "progress." Science conquered polio, but it also gave us the atom bomb. We live in a time when scientific ingenuity lights up our eyes with wonder even as it frightens us with the prospect of technological terror. The stinging criticism of Dolly is in part the sigh of a world community exhausted by the ethical dilemmas presented by science in the last sixty years...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Ian's Little Lamb | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...media has a responsibility to paint a true picture of the importance of basic research, especially cancer research. Medicine can eliminate few diseases completely with a magic bullet as it did polio (which the World Health Organization believes has been eliminated through vaccines.) But it can significantly improve the prognosis for patients, as it does for diabetics who can lead a near-normal lifestyle without a cure. In this war against cancer, we do not have to decimate the enemy to win. Each small achievement is a victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The War Against Cancer | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...rush of scientific optimism that followed the polio vaccine and the first moon walk, Richard Nixon declared war on America's second biggest killer: cancer. Twenty-five years and $35 billion later, the news from the cancer front is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANCER: THE GOOD NEWS | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

McConnell, who overcame polio as a child, is a self-disciplined, serious defender of the G.O.P. The only Republican to win a statewide race in Kentucky since 1968, he says balancing the budget is the most important issue facing the U.S. He also supports capital-gains-tax cuts, opposes congressional term limits and denies opponent Steven Beshear's assertion that Republicans would cut programs like Medicare, Medicaid and college loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: KENTUCKY | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...encounter some special cases. In many neighborhoods, the most fearsome suffering is among children--from firearms. But how can we move beyond the tears? Working together, community groups, including clergy, health workers and police officers, can effectively apply public health strategies and conduct research, as in the case of polio, cholera or tuberculosis, to help determine contributing factors in the death or injury of any child by a gun. This is groundwork that can help prevent such tragedies in the future. These efforts combine scientific process with religious commitment to stop the violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFFERING A HEALING HAND | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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