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That hasn't worked so far for deadly diseases like tuberculosis, malaria or AIDS, in part because no model for natural immunity exists for any of them. Thus scientists cannot crib from nature for vaccines, as Jenner did for smallpox. But that is changing as researchers get a sense of how many instruments in the immune-system orchestra they have at their disposal, and how to get the best performance from them. With HIV, for example, the virus mutates too rapidly. No sooner has the acquired immune system learned to identify and lock in on it than HIV develops...
...Editing is an complex business, part psychiatry, part police work - at its best, creative, at its worst, destructive. A good editor can, with a touch, bring dead writing to life. A bad editor strangles good writing in the crib. A good editor is boxing coach, personal trainer, confidant, authority figure, Sancho Panza, guardian angel, and dominatrix...
...ever forget the face of a seven-month-old who doesn't want to live anymore," he says. When Martinez went afterward to see the family, he found their one-room shanty, built of pallets and cardboard, open on all sides to the wind. Dust swirled around the empty crib in the corner. "I just leaned against the wall and thought, 'I can't compete against this,'" he said...
...wasn't until March, after losing his final appeal, that McVeigh claimed sole responsibility for the Oklahoma City bombing. Before then his lawyers maintained that the government had withheld evidence showing that other unnamed suspects may have been responsible. Here's a crib sheet on the worst terrorist attack in American history...
GOOD Fisher-Price Kick & Play Piano ($25) attaches to the crib. Babies learning to kick and grasp are rewarded with songs, sounds and twinkling lights. Once babies learn to sit, at around seven months, the toy can be played on the floor like a piano...