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Although one could imagine a host of issues that might sway Downie, for both personal and professional reasons--such as which candidate will appoint a Supreme Court that is less restrictive of press freedoms, or who is more likely to raise taxes--the Managing Editor will not be lured so easily. With the bad rap special interest groups have received in recent years, one can understand his reticence...
ABOUT that last hyphenated addition, take the case of President Bok. Earlier in the year, he was part of an influential panel of higher education leaders which released a report criticizing the quality of campaign debate about education. The report offered a host of problems that need the attention of candidates for high office...
...that can take over the machinery of a living cell and trick it into making thousands of flawless replicas of the original virus. Like its biological counterpart, a computer virus carries in its instructional code the recipe for making perfect copies of itself. Lodged in a host computer, the typical virus takes temporary control of the computer's disk operating system. Then, whenever the infected computer comes in contact with an uninfected piece of software, a fresh copy of the virus passes into the new program. Thus the infection can be spread from computer to computer by unsuspecting users...
...Medical Biology Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and at Stanford University, working separately and using different methods, successfully transplanted elements of the human immune system into mice. The achievement meant that such animals may soon serve as stand-ins for human beings in the study of AIDS and a host of other diseases, including leukemia and hepatitis. The mice could also be used to test drugs that would be unsafe to test in humans and to study the mysteries of the immune system with a precision never before possible. Declared Dr. David Katz, who is head of the La Jolla...
Princeton will dive back into league play next week. The Tigers will host Brown, which tied Yale, 24-24, last Saturday...