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Doctors call this generalized response to practically any kind of attack innate immunity. Even the bodies of animals as primitive as starfish defend themselves this way. But higher organisms have also developed a more precision-guided defense system that helps direct and intensify the innate response and creates specialized antibodies, custom-made to target specific kinds of bacteria or viruses. This so-called learned immunity is what enables drug companies to develop vaccines against diseases like smallpox and the flu. Working in tandem, the innate and learned immunological defenses fight pitched battles until all the invading germs are annihilated...
...Padgett: Some of them may be what you could term Aristide's Frankensteins. Instead of relying on the actual police force in Haiti, Aristide tended to promote armed groups out in the streets to defend his government from its enemies. And that strategy is in many ways backfiring on him. Guy Phillipe, the most visible figure in the rebel front, used to be a police honcho. But other key figures, such as Louis Jodel Chamblain, are veterans of Fraph, a paramilitary organization created during the anti-Aristide military coup of 1991 (reversed in 1994 by U.S. intervention), whose function...
...public schools, which was passed by the lower house of the French Parliament on Feb. 10. A youth counselor and lifelong resident of Paris banlieues - the poor, often violent and ethnically diverse housing developments on the outskirts of France's big cities - Cazenave, 30, might be expected to defend the right of Muslim girls to wear head scarves at school. But he backs the ban, and even wants the government to go further. "This law is a Band-Aid stuck on a serious social fracture," Cazenave says. "When do the republican values of equal opportunity and access for all become...
...loss to Penn Feb. 6, Harvard proved unable to defend the three. Many of Brown’s 13 trifectas came after star point guard Jason Forte penetrated before kicking the ball out to the perimeter, where the Bears whipped it around to the open man as the Crimson scrambled futilely to chase...
...preseason favorite, Harvard was the team to beat with the offense every coach in the league aimed to defend. Now, rather, it is Penn living the undefeated dream season. After bowing under pressure, the Crimson now has the unfamiliar opportunity of playing with nothing to lose...