Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vaccines work by teaching the immune system to recognize the face of the enemy. Once the body knows the chemical features, or antigens, of an infectious agent, it can produce specific weapons, or antibodies, against it. With malaria, however, there are three faces to recognize. Each stage is marked by different antigens, and antibodies against one stage will not provide protection against another. Nussenzweig and her immunologist husband Victor decided to focus their efforts on a sporozoite vaccine. In 1967 she showed that it was possible to protect mice against malaria by injecting them with sporozoites that had been rendered...
...when former CIA Agent Edwin Wilson was awaiting trial for having masterminded the biggest arms-smuggling operation in U.S. history, he spent his time plotting the assassination of two federal prosecutors and six potential witnesses against him. For that crime Wilson was sentenced to 25 years in prison. In addition, he received 32 years for smuggling explosives and weapons to Libya...
...before, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration had filed an affidavit in a U.S. district court in Miami charging that the Sandinistas had encouraged South American drug dealers to use a 6,000-ft. airstrip, a hangar and a cocaine-processing laboratory in Nicaragua to foster the shipment of drugs...
...Nastassja Kinski's black-haired baby has the looks of the actress's Egyptian lover, Ibrahim Moussa, 37. Delivered by caesarean section in a Rome clinic three weeks ago, Aljosha Nakzynski will soon travel with his mother to join Moussa in Monte Carlo, where the talent agent and film producer has just switched careers and is learning the ropes as an international representative for the Bulgari jewelry company...
...American and British intelligence officials of planting a suitcase containing a bomb on a commercial flight from Athens to Tel Aviv. The bomb did not go off. Greek authorities failed to press charges against the man and allowed him to leave the country. But they expelled an American CIA agent for obtaining evidence illegally by breaking into the Athens apartment of Shara's unwitting British woman friend...