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...lemon socialism: the private sector gets the profitable share of the market, and the public sector gets what's left. The problem with this particular lemon is that it tends to sour us on the possibility of real reform. Even those who crave a national program covering everyone are wont to throw up their hands in despair: Nothing works! It's so complex! Maybe in 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Our Health-Care Disgrace | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...young patient, Anderson and Blaese exposed them to mouse leukemia retro-viruses into which human ADA genes had been spliced. The retroviruses, rendered harmless by genetic engineering, were the vectors, the vehicles that would deliver the genes to their target. They invaded the T cells and, as retroviruses are wont to do, burrowed into the T- cell DNA, carrying the ADA gene with them. Finally, a billion or so T cells, now equipped with ADA genes and floating in the gray solution suspended above the little girl's bed in Bethesda, were dripped into her veins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Giant Step for Gene Therapy | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Since people are not wont to let go of rent-controlled apartments once they get them, those who need to move frequently--that is, the working poor--are doubly screwed...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Liberal Heresy? | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

...politicians -- especially Middle Eastern politicians -- are wont to do, Shamir was fudging the facts. Jamil Tarifi, a West Bank lawyer associated with the P.L.O., confirmed the talks and implied that he would report on the meeting to P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat. By meeting with Tarifi, insisted Labor Party official Yossi Beilin, Shamir made the P.L.O. leader implicitly part of the bargaining process. Said Beilin: "That there is negotiation with the P.L.O. is quite clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Masters of Double-Talk | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...when Harvard goes to war with the City of Cambridge, as it is wont to do, Steiner leads Harvard's cadre of lawyers into battle...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Wisdom Dispensed From Mount Harvard's Peak | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

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