Word: engulfment
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Most vaccines work by exposing the immune system to a weakened or killed virus, which sensitizes the body to the bug and causes it to produce a standing army of antibodies. If a viable virus presents itself later, the antibodies signal immune-system cells, which engulf the invader. AIDS vaccines have never produced a crop of antibodies robust enough to get this defense going...
FREDONIA, KANS. Midwestern floods engulf homes...
...terrorism was always a mixed blessing for democracy. President Bush says spreading freedom is key to preventing future terrorist attacks, but his own policies have made reform much harder. For Middle East dictators who equate democratization with chaos, Iraq has been a godsend. With anarchy threatening to engulf the region, the U.S. now needs dictators like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah more than they need us, which leaves us little leverage to push reform. When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went to Cairo in June 2005, she made Egyptian democracy the centerpiece of her trip...
...someone writing down an account of daily expenditures. Why? Because you have something to hide!'' That night I had a nightmare, the first of many: I was on the narrow ledge of a sheer rocky cliff by the sea. The roaring waves of the incoming tide were rising to engulf me. It was pitch dark, I was utterly alone, and I was petrified...
...rent a copy of Black Hawk Down--it's tempting for Western policymakers to wash their hands and wish Gedi luck. But Somalia's strife has repercussions beyond its borders. The country is victim to the worst ravages of man and nature. Instability there has the potential to engulf the entire Horn of Africa in war, with neighboring countries Ethiopia and Eritrea jockeying for influence and pirates using the lawless coast as a base to launch attacks on the freighter traffic headed for the Suez Canal. Some of the Islamists have vowed a guerrilla war against the new government, which...