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Still, Helms yearns to be liked and doesn't seem to grasp the extent to which he has alienated some of his brethren. Not long ago, Ted Kennedy, his $ liberal foe, was slightly injured when a tree fell on his car. "I vow that I didn't have my chain saw out there," Helms jokingly told Kennedy as they got on an elevator together. Kennedy laughed, said Helms. Perhaps, but Kennedy will not talk about Helms. Neither will Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Why not? "I have to face him," says Pell. Former Senator George McGovern feels...
...however, scientists have a good grasp not only of the broad workings of the immune system but of many of the nitty-gritty details as well. In a typical infection, for example, a flu virus burrows into a cell in the lining of an air passage, takes over the machinery of the cell, and orders it to produce more flu viruses. Quickly engorged, the invaded cell bursts, releasing new viruses to infiltrate other cells and replicate further. Left unchecked, the onslaught would eventually kill enough cells to cause death. But the intruders soon encounter roving scavenger cells called phagocytes, which...
Neither Dukakis nor Jackson seemed to mind that the presidential race was at a pause. The Massachusetts governor, the nomination seemingly within his grasp, took a weekend off for the first time in months...
...devil conforms much better to the expectations of British nobility than did Jack as god of love. Message: man, or at least members of the British ruling class, is essentially evil in his inability to love, and sanity can be inseparable from insanity. A simple enough concept to grasp, but it takes the play the greater part of three hours to convey it, accompanied by incredible histrionics and overdramatic scenes...
Would the future flow that naturally from the past? Are the contours of a Dukakis Administration that easy to grasp? Would President Dukakis behave as if the U.S. were an elongated version of the Bay State? Does Dukakis fully understand the magnitude of the difference...