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...cell anemia, because finding tissue matches for African Americans (who are affected by the disease more often than any other racial group) has proved, for complex genetic reasons, especially difficult. The technique could also boost the damaged immune systems of AIDS patients, provided scientists first find a way to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the AIDS virus within the transplant candidate. "If the virus could be controlled," says Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, one of the study's coauthors, "the immune system could be replaced...
...final round of the election. Lebed turned up at his new office at dawn and told a group of journalists he would sort things out. "The only thing we have accomplished in five years was holding these elections," he said, "and now there has been an attempt to disrupt the second round. Any revolt will be put down, and harshly...
...Israel for defending itself against attacks from an elusive attacker (of which 12, not six members were killed) and not impugning Syria (whose 35,000 troops have occupied and controlled Lebanon since 1976) or Iran for promoting the attacker is putting the cart before the horse. Israel did not disrupt the peace process by its attacks; on the contrary, its refusal to allow terrorism to rule the region actually advances the movement to achieve a comprehensive agreement between the nations in the region. Once terrorism ceases, there will no longer be any need for "occupation" or self-defense. --Michael...
Even if the dining services union strikes, Bozzotto said, it will not attempt to disrupt any of this year's Commencement festivities--in contrast to Yale University employees, who are holding a massive demonstration in New Haven next week...
WASHINGTON: Justice Department officials arrested two Georgia men on charges of constructing pipe bombs but denied a CBS report that the suspects were plotting to set off explosives to disrupt the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. "This is a couple of militia types who built things that can be made into pipe bombs, but we have no information of any plan to use them for the Olympics," said one law enforcement official. "The Olympics only came up once during the investigation when at one of their meetings one member said if a bomb goes off at the Olympics they would...