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Within days after the viral burst, the researchers measured a rapid increase in the bloodstream of the number of anti-HIV antibodies. These Y-shaped bits of protein sought out the virus and targeted it for destruction. Once the antibody attack reached full scale in the seven test subjects, the...
Some Pentagon officials suggested that the new fires might have been started by the Iraqis as a last-ditch defensive strategy, to try to impede visibility for a final allied offensive. But U.S. military planners said they could circumvent any such tactics. The Iraqi actions seemed to be aimed more...
To ensure that Saddam cannot patiently rebuild his military to its former glory, the U.S. and Britain will seek to maintain sanctions forbidding the sale to Iraq of weapons and munitions or the equipment for domestically producing them. Historically such embargoes have proved very leaky. At the moment, as many...
Why we should retreat from earlier, more glorious methods of affixion is unclear, and Harvard students, being clever folk, have devised several ways to circumvent the problem. One favorite is to place a dab or two of poster gum around the edges of the poster, in order to give the...
Newspapers with strong international coverage, like the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, have weighed in with stories from around the globe that TV has missed, like a report in the Monitor last week asserting that China had tried to circumvent the embargo against arms shipments to Iraq...