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Graves' Disease is an auto-immune disorder in which the body unaccountably attacks itself. In such disorders, the immune system is hyper-vigilant, prepared to fight off enemy viruses at all times. But when no such enemies are present, the immune system turns against its own tissues. This in turn weakens the body's ability to resist viral infection, and the vicious cycle plays itself out ad infinitum. It's unclear whether the viruses cause the disease or the disease causes the viruses. It is known that Graves' Disease is hereditary to a certain extent, although there is no clear...
...faded image of a body, splashes of blood. A scrap of cloth that may attest both Passion and Resurrection. The Roman Catholic hierarchy in this northwestern Italian city, renowned for its auto industry--and, well, for this--estimates that 3 million people will line up in the next eight weeks to view what has come to be known as the Shroud of Turin, on public display for the first time in 20 years. Seven hundred thousand have reserved their places. The Pope will arrive on May 24 to venerate the relic. Some of the pilgrims who precede and follow...
Roger & Me, for those of you who were not treated to it in your AP Economics class, is a thorough documentary about the rise and fall of Flint, Michigan according to the whims of General Motors. Moore focused on the human effects of unemployment, showing broken families and auto-workers turned rabbit skinners. The entire film builds to a single question: "What right does GM have to close its factories in Flint, ruining thousands of lives, all for the sake of corporate profits...
...steps into the shoes of the current Premier, Li, the challenges before him are more complicated than rescuing an auto factory. With half a dozen of China's neighbors financially shipwrecked, Zhu must steer China's 1.2 billion people through some dangerous political and economic shoals. Among his most immediate problems: repairing a chaotic and bankrupt financial system, closing thousands of rust-bucket factories useful only for soaking up excess labor, and stemming rising unemployment and social unrest, which recently exploded in a fatal bomb blast in the industrial city of Wuhan...
...change last week, though, was a real haircut. For the first time in 11 years, the BLS compiled a new "market basket" of goods to track, adding things like cellular phones and auto leases and making personal computers more prominent. The BLS, which monitors some 80,000 items, added one major category, education and communication, catapulting the CPI into the information age. All the latest revisions will shave about .1 of a percentage point off the annual rate, bringing the four-year cumulative effect on the CPI to .6 of a percentage point. The White House predicts that turning...