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Calcium fever is sweeping the country, but scientists warn that it is no panacea for osteoporosis, the degenerative bone disease...
Condoms, if used properly, have been shown to help prevent the virus from being transmitted. But Dr. Marcus Conant of the California department of health task force on AIDS cautions against thinking of condoms as a panacea. "They are not a surefire way to avoid pregnancy," he points out, "and it is probably just as easy to catch AIDS ((from a carrier)) as to get pregnant...
...panacea for AIDS. Because the original trials were terminated after only seven months, doctors cannot predict how long doses of the drug will continue to thwart the virus. They also warn that AZT has damaged the marrow of some patients' bones and could have even worse long- range effects. Moreover, says Terry Beirn of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, "we're not talking about cure. At the moment, I don't think it's in the lexicon...
...much the dollar's fall will do for U.S. trade remains to be seen. Lester Thurow, a professor of economics at M.I.T., cautions that the weakened currency is no panacea. Says he: "The dollar is nowhere near a low enough level to solve the trade-deficit problem." Allan Meltzer, a professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University, is more sanguine. He comments, "I have no problem believing that the export surge is coming." Not surprisingly, neither Meltzer nor anyone else is willing to predict the precise timetable for a turnaround in the balance of trade...
...investment. Using investment as a means toward social and political progress may not bring about an overnight solution, but divestment leaves us with no influence at all. Instead, it robs Blacks of jobs and isolates us from the debate inside South Africa. Divesititure is a quick-fix panacea that would leave us atop the most impregnable ivory tower of all--that of self-righteousness. All we could do is yell at the South African government from our dizzying moral heights supposedly content with the knowledge that we had cleansed ourselves of the entire affair...