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...crossed on a carpet, is the general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade Habré ate from the same plate with us when he came to visit," the commander says...
Monoclonal antibodies are hybrid cells, made up of antibody-producing cells fused with malignant ones. The hybrid cells can be cloned, allowing them to keep producing antibodies necessary to detect the virus...
...doctor is in the throes of a rather too calculated crisis: his longtime office nurse, a childhood sweetheart and pathetically faithful dogsbody, lies dying of cancer that he failed to detect in time...
When he arrived in office 13 months ago, Jackson says, the state employed only 26 corporate tax auditors--while Massachusetts has 125,000 registered corporations. "We had more auditors to detect welfare fraud than corporate tax evasion--which is a more lucrative area," Jackson notes...
...wonder to achieve just such impossibilities. He gets all but universal praise from journalists and from officials he has interviewed, for both skill and affability. "In all the years I've known Ted," says ABC Morning News Anchor Steve Bell, "I've yet to detect the flaw...