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DIED. MERRILL CHASE, 98, immunologist who discovered a new branch of the immune system; in New York City. Working with white blood cells in the early 1940s, he stumbled on cell-mediated immunity; until then antibodies were thought to be the sole source of protection against infection...
...Cambridge NAACP, the Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also presented Mayor Michael A. Sullivan with its Martin Luther King, Jr., Education Award...
...That was no easy task, since retail investors ordered 1,604 times more shares than China Green had undertaken to sell, making it the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history. On the opening day of trading, Wong and about a dozen other investors gathered at a branch of brokerage KGI Asia in the city's North Point district shortly before 10 a.m., expecting the stock to surge after the market opened. It did. Within minutes of the starting bell, China Green shares had climbed 56%. "I'm selling," Wong proclaimed. She liquidated her holdings (3,000 shares...
...data that returned just an hour later revealed that the two viruses were more than similar: they were almost identical. The 14 amino-acid sequences concurred, which meant that the viruses not only belonged to the same phylogenetic tree, they were also both on the same branch--and practically on the same leaf. The virus that was in those wild-animal markets had somehow infected a human being. The data were so compelling that the committee resolved that afternoon to phone the provincial governor and recommend a culling of civets...
Around midnight on Dec. 26, Susan M. Briggs, a surgeon on the Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty, received a telephone call from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...