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...until the 20th century? In the 1970s a couple of outsiders, working in relative isolation in Australia, hit on the answer. Australian Peter Doherty, who trained as a veterinary surgeon, and Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel, a Swiss specialist in tropical diseases, figured out that the rejection response was actually a by-product of the body's basic virus-defense system...
...retrospect, however, the fit between Bob Dole and the anti-affirmative-action cause was not a natural one. Prop. 209 came from outside the normal political channels--and those are the channels where Dole has spent his whole career. Prop. 209 is really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively...
...Radcliffe Graduate Studies Center, a by-product of the restructuring, will offer career programming services similar to those now offered by RCS, but will not have feefor-service career counseling...
...group would endorse candidates and recommend both the timing and amount of contributions. Liapakis, who learned litigation from personal-injury pioneer Harry Lipsig, describes her plan in terms of civic duty. "This is about educating our members," she says, as if enhanced political power were merely an incidental by-product. She knows better. Last December A.T.L.A. member Bill Lerach, a San Diego securities litigator whose firm has given more than $1 million to Democrats since 1990, had dinner at the White House. Four days later, Clinton vetoed the Securities Litigation Reform Act. But Congress voted to override the veto...
Safe sex may be made safer with dairy. A by-product of whey, the tasteless liquid exuded in cheesemaking, appears to prevent the AIDS virus from infecting cells in the test tube. In the future it may be used with condoms in creams or foams...