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Quack medicine comes in two varieties: "irrelevant but harmless" and "toxic." The Administration's plan to wire American classrooms for Internet service is toxic quackery. Four-fifths of U.S. schools have Internet access already; instead of wiring the rest, we ought to lay down a startling new educational directive: First learn reading and writing, history and arithmetic. Then play Frisbee, go fishing or surf the Internet. Lessons first, fun second...
...pharmaceutical-company research departments and academic labs around the country, scientists are feverishly at work on drugs that target the products of specific genes--the very genes that make a cell cancerous. The hope is that these treatments will be more effective, longer lasting and far less toxic than traditional chemotherapy and radiation--treatments that inspire dread so deep that they are almost as feared as cancer itself...
COPING WITH A TOXIC SOUP...
...dangerous because naive first years that we were, preoccupied with our studies, would forget the contraband in our pockets, only remembering to eat when it had spoiled. If that claim seemed dubious, this new beverage initiative strains credibility still further. Coffee, soda and juice do not often become toxic...
...dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow of a mountain of toxic sludge as high as the lake is deep...