Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heroic adman learns that his son was set up to preserve the effectiveness of a British-run mole in the I.R.A. Maas cuts a clear line between his sympathy for the Irish cause and his aversion to cold-blooded violence. There is ice, too, in the veins of Britain's counterterrorists, and hypocrisy in the Republic of Ireland, whose constitution includes all of the Emerald Isle in its national territory. As one insider puts it, "It was an open secret that given its domestic economic woes, the last thing the republic's leadership wanted was to take on the burden...
...hostages are repeatedly threatened with death. Their meals consist of Arabic bread, foul-tasting cheese and tea. Buckley's treatment reveals the full cruelty of the kidnapers. He catches a bad cold that develops into pneumonia, but the guards show him no mercy. "Mr. Buckley is dying," Father Jenco pleads one day. "He is sick. He has dry heaves. Give us liquids...
Finding a cure for the common cold has been an elusive goal for generations. The reason: there are more than 100 different types of rhinoviruses, the culprits responsible for about half of all colds. Now scientists may have the key to warding off the sniffles. Reporting in the journal Cell last week, two separate research teams announced the discovery of a cell molecule to which rhinoviruses attach themselves. When the cold viruses bind to the molecule, known as the ICAM-1 receptor, they infect the cell...
...copies of the molecule might one day be made into a decoy medicine. Sprayed into the nose, the drug could confuse invading rhinoviruses, luring them away from the real cell receptors in the body. Once bound to the synthetic, the viruses could be neutralized and thus prevented from causing colds. But that strategy, which might prevent but probably would not cure an active cold, has thus far worked only in the test tube. Relief is still years away...
...study finds that artery-inflating balloon angioplasty is unnecessary if a heart-attack patient is given a clot-dissolving drug. -- Snuffing the common cold...