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...individual well where the blood cells mingle with the faux tissue. As the blood cells get cozy, they flourish, and a teensy, homegrown, fully functioning human immune system is born. Up to 96 wells, enough for 96 individual immune systems, fit on a plate roughly the size of a deck of cards. From here, the next step is to toss a vaccine into the mix and watch the action unfold. (MIMIC uses skin-like constructs, since cuts and open sores on the skin are a natural entry point for many viruses, but different viruses prefer different doorways, so VaxDesign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Immunity in a Test Tube | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...military from tracking cell-phone-carrying insurgents, although the military says it doesn't actually do so. Zinni puts the situation in context. "European countries saying that, 'We contribute to NATO because we're involved in reconstruction,'" he says dismissively, "is like saying, 'I'm in charge of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Alliance Of the Unwilling | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...between Carnarvon and Geraldton. After weathering technical problems and a cyclone, on March 12 it transmitted the startling news: the Kormoran had been found. Four days later, the Sydney was located. Graham's fellow Foundation director Glenys McDonald, who was on board, said: "I went up to the back deck and leaned over the railing and cried and gave thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost No More | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...about the kind of candidate he wants to be. Not just any Republican can play in California. President George W. Bush failed miserably there in 2000 and 2004; so did Bob Dole in 1996 and Bush's father in 1992. But they were mostly dealing from the old Republican deck, fashioned most recently by Bush strategist Karl Rove--jazz up the base, hammer the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Script | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Over a hundred people opted to head onto a chilly observation deck where the eclipse, which reached its peak at around 11 p.m., was framed by the Boston skyline...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Venture to Science Center To Observe Lunar Eclipse | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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