Word: foe
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...during World War II, immunologists have determined just what makes for a good tissue match. Research dating from the 1960s shows that the immune system has developed its own set of molecular passwords, called human leukocyte antigens, that identify every nerve, every capillary, every organ as either friend or foe. If a cell displays the right HLA molecules on its surface, the T cells will leave it alone. If not, it gets zapped...
...millions of Ethiopians for whom starvation is a constant foe, the stakes in the struggle for control of the country are especially high. So far, the tumult has brought them nothing but misery. Food deliveries to Ethiopia's 7 million drought victims have been disrupted, and in some cases stopped, by the fighting. Supply trucks were attacked and looted, and international relief workers fled. The fall of coastal Assab to Eritrean fighters two weeks ago temporarily closed the city's port on the Red Sea, one of the most important conduits...
...defends the use of physical force, but when the coercion involved is purely psychological, it becomes hard to assign blame after the fact. Journalist Stephanie Gutmann is an ardent foe of what she calls the date-rape dogmatists. "How can you make sex completely politically correct and completely safe?" she asks. "What a horribly bland, unerotic thing that would be! Sex is, by nature, a risky endeavor, emotionally. And desire is a violent emotion. These people in the date-rape movement have erected so many rules and regulations that I don't know how people can have erotic or desire...
...often say something about their personalities. The B-School is one of the toughest: It has huge amounts of money; it doesn't need any press; no one there-students included--likes to talk. Yet Terri scraped, fought, and battled, just like she did all her life against a foe she finally could not defeat--cystic fibrosis...
...demanding road than in 1990. The Crimson entered last year's tourney undefeated and ranked first in the nation, and received a first-round bye. This year, however, the team earned the final bid, and must play a first-round game on the road. The Crimson faces a familiar foe--the New Hampshire Wilcats--this Saturday in Durham...