Word: worthlessness
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...possibility that a combination of vegetable oils developed by Augusto and Michaela Odone might have improved the condition of their son Lorenzo, 14, who suffers from a degenerative nerve illness called adrenoleukodystrophy. Now a two-year study from France concludes that the remedy, named for the Odones' son, is worthless -- at least for the milder, adult form of the ailment. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Patrick Aubourg and his colleagues from the St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Paris report that they could find no improvement in 24 patients who had taken Lorenzo...
...Lorenzo's oil, the cinematically celebrated "cure" for adrenoleukodystroph y, a nervous-system disease, is worthless for adults suffering from the disorder, says new research...
...Tonight Show and programs of its genre become respectable forums for politicians, it will introduce even more selective pressure in favor of candidates with perniciously worthless traits. Modern candidates must already be photogenic, and in most cases, rich. Now such candidates must be able to trade one-liners with Jay Leno...
...souls who haven't closed out their academic year, tests are very much on the brain. It's fair to say that these students should be studying. But for more and more students, the old-fashioned process of reviewing notes and books from the whole semester has become as worthless as blowing against the wind...
...those opposing the SAT go even further, contending that the test is a worthless criterion...