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Both can be treated, but there is a catch: the treatments are nearly as harsh as the diseases. Steroids, for example--a mainstay of lupus therapy--shut down the immune system and suppress inflammation, but they can also promote hardening of the arteries, bone loss, obesity and even psychosis. Steroids are, in fact, among the leading causes of death and morbidity for patients with chronic lupus...
Both can be treated, but there’s a catch: the treatments are nearly as harsh on the body as the diseases themselves. Steroids, for example-a mainstay of lupus therapy-shut down the immune system and suppress painful inflammation, but can also promote hardening of the arteries, bone loss, psychosis and obesity. Steroids, in fact, are among of the leading causes of death and morbidity for patients with chronic lupus...
...behavior of those whom they control as close as possible to a continually narrowing socially constructed definition of "normal?" Will children and their pets soon be engineered from birth not to experience sadness and never chew on the carpeting? Will they be house-trained from birth? Will we suppress their libidos until they turn 21 (in their respective age-counting regimes)? Where does the right of a guardian stop...
...conceded by the electoral commission are a tremendous psychological blow for Milosevic - he's been forced to acknowledge that he's not the popular choice for president - he retains considerable power. He may yet decide to tough it out, relying on the police and, if necessary, the military, to suppress opposition activity. Meanwhile, as he massages the election results to his advantage, he is probably savoring the possibility that an opposition boycott of any runnoff election might give him an opportunity to fraudulently reclaim the presidency. Mass protests may even prompt him to declare an emergency and call...
...deploying them against half of the population would be untenable - it's a conscript army, after all, and the reason Milosevic actually bothers to hold elections at all is that he requires some measure of popular consent to rule. He may therefore opt for a runoff election, preferring to suppress some of his opponent's vote tally rather than inflate his own so that neither man registers more than 49 percent. Milosevic, also, is far from lacking in the requisite cynicism required to simply use opposition charges of widespread ballot fraud as an excuse to call another election...