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Allergies, like autoimmune diseases such as arthritis and lupus, result from aberrant functioning of the human immune system, the body's remarkable defense against dangerous invaders, including viruses, bacteria and parasites. In the case of hay fever, the immune system perceives the fuzzy grain of pollen as a threat. The cause of the confusion, explains botanist Walter Lewis of Washington University in St. Louis, is a chemical message encoded by proteins in the pollen grain's cell wall...
...three years after Jimmy Carter placed Iraq on the State Department's list of nations supporting terrorism, Ronald Reagan removed Iraq from the list, reopening the way for U.S. aid. The Reagan Administration moved quickly to provide Iraq with over $400 million in loan guarantees to buy American grain...
Here's a pop quiz sure to make libertarians quiver. Which of the following items cannot be acquired without special permission: a carton of Lucky Strike nonfilters, a liter of grain alcohol, handcuffs, a hypodermic needle or (hint, hint) a nicotine patch...
...crisscrossed square of pink tape to an unvarnished pine board. Everything is actual size, and the flatness of the board corresponds to the flatness of the painting, so that the illusion is nearly absolute. The pencil and chalk marks on the board look just like pencil and chalk, every grain line in the cheap wood and fiber in a torn paper edge is there, and the play of the yellow and blue rectangles and envelopes against the square of tape has the lovely spareness of a Motherwell collage...
Which brings us to be paradox of how something can be alternative and mainstream at the same time. The answer is: Easily, once it becomes profitable to produce music that sounds as if it is somehow against the grain. If the music-buying public has a taste for amplifier feedback, singers in plaid, nuns with guitars, whatever , odds are they'll get it. Because despite this wonderful vision we have a musical subculture, pretty much all music in America is pop music. Popular, as in we the people who crew it up to the tune of hundreds of millions...