Word: graftings
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...Philippines, once the U.S.'s staunchest ally in Asia, is in the throes of an election year and an identity crisis. It is plagued by corruption and graft throughout the government, and is gripped by a spiraling crime rate. Despite criticism of his regime, President Ferdinand Marcos will probably win reelection to a second term. Bowing to growing nationalistic feelings, Marcos already has begun to shift the Philippines toward a policy of assertive neutrality. The Philippines resent the fact that their base treaties with the U.S. are less generous than those just concluded with Spain, and would like...
...Political graft, corruption in your judiciary, race riots, the burning of your own country's flag in public, the murder of prominent citizens including your own President, drug addiction-you name it and you've got it. No thanks; we'll keep our Royal Family and all the decadence that goes with it. You keep your Black Panthers and the almighty dollar...
...Wolfe became a general reporter for the Springfield (Mass.) Union, leaving it two years later to become Latin American correspondent for the Washington Post. In Springfield, he relearned Lincoln Steffen's dictum that the cities are run on graft (and, now, its sophisticated offspring, urban renewal). In Haiti, he learned that "the real details"--like the fact that a Haitian minister was a pin-ball addict who had the tilt sign turned off whenever he played--were never reported. Back in Washington for a few months, he finally left for the Trib after "covering about my fourth sewer hearing...
...recipient, John Madden, 54, owner of a photography studio, had been legally blind from the scarring of the corneas of both eyes. At Methodist Hospital, Dr. Conard D. Moore grafted ; cornea onto Madden's right eye, but after nine days, the graft failed because of severe bleeding. A hazel-eyed Houston man had died of a brain tumor, and Moore decided to make the transplant to the brown-eyed Madden...
When any vertebrate animal is "invaded" by foreign proteins-whether bacteria, viruses, or tissues from another animal as in a graft or transplant-the invaders soon meet one of the host's body cells that is armed with the appropriate antibody. This contact is a signal to the cell to divide. Its progeny also divide and soon there is an army of antibodies, each able to seize and hold two invading molecules. Powerful scavenger cells such as phagocytes then can go into action and effectively remove both combatants...