Word: england
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Using bioengineering techniques, medical researchers have begun to mass- produce these substances and use them, sometimes in combined "cocktails," to boost the immune system against specific diseases. In clinical trials at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital, Dr. Jerome Groopman has found that granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor reverses bone-marrow failure and boosts white-cell counts in AIDS patients. Gamma interferon seems to remedy the defective functioning of monocytes and macrophages in a wide variety of diseases. Alpha interferon has been particularly effective against two types of leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system...
These primitive practices were introduced to England and the American colonies. In 1721 and 1722, during a smallpox epidemic, a Boston doctor named Zabdiel Boylston scratched the skin of his six-year-old son and 285 other people and rubbed pus from smallpox scabs into the wounds. All but six of his patients survived...
Dartmouth ran away with the title Saturday in the 101st New England Track and Field Championships at Dedham. The Big Green won with a record 147 points, the most ever scored in the history of the meet...
Ever since John Kennedy carried Texas in 1960 with Lyndon Johnson on the ticket, the political heft of the vice-presidential nominee has been shrouded in myth. These days, Democrats talk as if a Southern running mate would help Dukakis transcend his New England pedigree. But rarely has the bottom half of the ticket packed such a punch. Political Scientist Steven Rosenstone of the University of Michigan, who has studied state-by-state presidential returns since 1948, says that at best a vice-presidential nominee can add about 2% to the ticket in his home state. Period. Richard Nixon grasped...
...achievement of Penelope Lively in her seventh novel, the surprise winner of the prestigious Booker Prize in England for 1987, is that she manages to evoke considerable sympathy for a character who could easily be a pompous bore. Lively sees her whole: an innocent in a shriveling world, determined to live on a heroic scale and frustrated by family and friends who fail her as companion demigods...