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...them, not bombs. And Congress, he goes on, Congress should have to rescind some old law every time it passes a new one, to make room. Ordinary stuff is Rooney's beat, with no verbal slickery: how doctors can do a heart bypass but not cure a 101 degrees fever, and why do clothing manufacturers put all those pins in new shirts? There is no dazzler at the end; he just stops talking, smiles and waves. The reader is warmed by the happy illusion that he himself could have said all that stuff. Rooney a celebrity? Come...
...addition to causing AIDS and flu, viruses have brought the scourges of smallpox, yellow fever and polio. They bear responsibility for many of the familiar rashes of youth -- chicken pox, measles, rubella -- as well as such disparate disorders as the common cold, gastroenteritis, herpes, shingles, warts and mononucleosis. Viruses are known to cause at least one form of human cancer and are prime suspects in several other kinds of malignancies. Just last week Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he and his team had isolated a new virus that may cause certain kinds...
...liquids failed to reveal the "filterable agents" that caused the diseases. Also, unlike bacteria, these agents could apparently not be grown in culture dishes, where scientists hoped they might form colonies large enough to be seen with the naked eye. The source of such diseases as mumps, smallpox, yellow fever, rabies and dengue remained a mystery. And yet, wrote frustrated Bacteriologist William Henry Welch in 1894, "these are the most typically contagious diseases, which it might have been supposed would be the first to unlock their secrets...
Although acute infections like influenza kill thousands each year, most people defeat their tiny attackers. Still, they may suffer while the battle is being waged. Indeed, many of the typical symptoms of infection -- fever, chills, itchy rashes, localized swelling -- are due less to the virus than to the vigorous activity of the immune system. However, once the body has created a population of antibody-producing B cells designed to combat a specific virus, immunity to that virus often lasts for decades, or even a lifetime. Then why does the common cold return again and again? One reason, scientists explain...
Scapine maintains a high level of energy and loudness, with little variation. At times, the fever pitch becomes tiresome, and some range of pace and noise level would be appreciated...