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...wake of communism's collapse, the question on the table for the first time is whether to expand eastward to embrace those former Soviet satellites finally in a position to join the free world's premier defense alliance. "It would be a historic sin to miss this opportunity to bind in the East Europeans," says NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner. But the West, led by the U.S., is about to commit that very sin. The 16 nations that already enjoy NATO's protection are on the verge of effectively denying it to others...
...announced a tentative agreement -- no details -- on the agricultural issues that have been blocking a new world-trade agreement. The bargainers still have plenty of work to do as they race to meet a Dec. 15 deadline. But the odds improved that they can seal a deal that would bind 116 nations to take further steps toward free trade. If so, exports all over the world, including those shipped from the U.S., should benefit...
...until November 13, Clinton apparently failed to recognize the need for a moral vision to bind together the disparate components of his legislative agenda. Until November 13, he seemed to have forgotten that George Bush's downfall was the result of his deficient vision, or "the vision thing," as the former President phrased...
...Asian nations and the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. At this point, it amounts to little more than a trade-issues study group. Though Washington has avoided taking any position on the matter for now, the U.S. might eventually prefer to see APEC become a mechanism to bind Pacific Rim nations into a NAFTA-style trade family, especially in the face of sentiment building among some Asian nations in favor of regional trade arrangements that exclude the U.S. "The U.S. has at long last started to look seriously at its trade interests in the Pacific," says Kwon Byong Hyon...
Such memory is generated on the basis of interactions between specialized cells, known as T and B lymphocytes, and antigens. Upon first "seeing" a given antigen, in the phase known as the "primary response," just a handful of the millions of cells can actually recognize, or bind, the antigen. The system is thus incapable of mounting a truly effective response...