Word: treates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With this insight, scientists could more accurately predict an individual's vulnerability to such obviously genetic diseases as cystic fibrosis and could eventually develop new drugs to treat or even prevent them. The same would be true for more common disorders like heart disease and cancer, which at the very least have large genetic components. Better knowledge of the genome could speed development of gene therapy -- the actual alteration of instructions in the human genome to eliminate genetic defects...
...Genetic engineering in humans should be used to treat diseases, not to foster genetic uniformity...
...When things are going well you are treated very well in the NHL, but if things aren't going that great they become a little careless in how they treat you--sending you to the minors, getting down on you," MacDonald said. "You just don't have any control. That's a down side...
...people at Harvard hesitate to come out of the closet because sometimes it just doesn't seem worth it. All of a sudden, you are a minority. People treat you differently. They look at you funny. You mention last night's date and suddenly everyone is silent and turning red and desperately eager to assure you of their orientation. You can't hold your loved one's hand in public any more without shocking people. You can't dance with your loved one because it becomes a public gesture of defiance instead of a fun thing...
Cross-dependent people as a rule are more difficult to treat than single- substance abusers. Often they admit to having trouble with one chemical -- cocaine, for example -- but hide the fact that they are misusing sleeping pills or alcohol. Says Dr. Roger Meyer of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Connecticut in Farmington: "It's hard to get them focused and to realize that they need to be talking about total abstinence from all mood- altering drugs." Kitty Dukakis has understood the message but must translate it into practice. Said her husband: "As she has now discovered, whether...