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...while a handful of counties around the country recognize this problem and will accept an absentee ballot even if postage is not paid in its entirety, the vast majority will not. Many absentee voters may be getting their ballots sent back to them well after the election, their votes not having been counted...
...rebels had earlier said they would accept a cease-fire if President Idriss Déby , a longtime ally of France (and lately, also of the U.S.), left office and cleared the way for their takeover. "You take power through elections, not otherwise," Sarkozy warned, indicating that the 1,400 French troops stationed in Chad could step off the sidelines if the rebels push their luck. The United Nations Security Council has urged all member states to back President Déby's government in the face of the rebel onslaught. "If Chad has been the victim of an aggression...
...Refusing to accept the ideas of Enlightenment liberals such as John Locke “as immutable truths good at all times and places,” Dewey insisted that we instead conceive of liberty “as something subject to historic relativity...
...team was the fact that the chimeric state is not permanent, with the immune system eventually returning to its original state. Yet the patients have nonetheless continued to tolerate their donated kidneys for almost five years. Why? Sachs believes that once the immune system is trained to accept the donated organ, sentry cells protect the organ from being recognized as foreign. The transplanted kidney exists in an immune bubble, guarded from the T cells that could still destroy...
...that's the case, say transplant surgeons, it might even be possible in coming years to look outside our species for much needed organs. Once the human immune system can be trained to safely accept foreign tissue, then these so-called xenotransplants, from pigs or primates, could provide a welcome solution to the organ shortages that still put 98,000 patients in the U.S. each year on waiting lists...