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...apparent in the ads. Since firearms cannot be sold through the mails, weapon manufacturers offer only catalogs to readers. But enough lethal ware, from blowguns to exploding arrows to mini-garrotes, can be bought to fend off any guerrillas who might happen to invade your backyard. Budding adventurers can bone up on techniques by ordering Get Even: The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks ("You'll never again have to 'grin and bear it' when inconsiderate creeps do you dirty"; $12.95) while sipping coffee from a Soldier of Fortune mug ($7.95) and relaxing on a military cot ($99.50). The classifieds bristle...
...period than in all the rest of my life put together." Still, it was 20 years before the full story of the procedure emerged, although surgeons had discovered a malignant cancer and removed much of Cleveland's gums, inner cheek and upper jaw (an artificial rubber jaw replaced the bone...
...revitalize the weakened immune systems of AIDS patients, researchers have in some cases tried bone-marrow transplants and infusions of interferons and interleukin-2, another substance produced naturally by white blood cells. But such efforts, like those aimed at arresting the virus, have failed to influence the course of the disease. The answer, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, "may lie in a two-pronged approach to suppress the replication of the virus at the same time that we are enhancing the immune response." This strategy, Fauci and other researchers think...
...cancer genes can be so readily turned on, for example, the new technique may reveal ways to turn them off. And what is learned about gene expression could be applied to human gene therapy, in which people born with defective genes will have a "good" gene introduced into their bone marrow to produce the missing proteins. If all goes well, such therapy will begin on victims of blood disorders and enzyme deficiencies within five years. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by David Bjerklie/New York
...title track from the Boss's upcoming album starts with a gentle acoustic strum, gains steam on the backs of evocative nouns (blood, stone, bone) and peaks with a harmonica solo. It's nothing new, which is to say, it's very good...