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...five-million-dollar grant for the next five years from the Florence DeGeorge Islet Research Challenge has made possible the establishment of the new JDF Center for Islet Cell Transplantation...
...November 17 is the only Greek guerrilla group to have used antitank missiles. TIME's Anthee Carassavas reports that the leftist movement it supports is still rankling over U.S. intervention after Greece and Turkey came to the brink of war last month over claims to a small by symbolic islet in the south Aegan sea. "This comes amid a period of rising anti-American sentiment which has been fueled by the outome of that crisis. President Clinton sent in troubleshooter Richard Holbrooke, who reached an eleventh-hour deal to have them withdraw their forces and leave the island stripped...
Another warning of danger outside the wire-rimmed islet of peace sounded in the north, where militiamen, presumably from the Muslim extremist group Hizballah, in Lebanon exchanged fire with Israeli troops. And in the Gaza Strip the Palestine Liberation Organization's leader Yasser Arafat, with whom Israel made peace last year, called a general strike. He was protesting a clause in the treaty that lends weight to Jordan's claim to protect Jerusalem's Muslim holy places...
...Chau, a little island off Hong Kong, is a hilly, barely habitable patch that measures less than half a square mile. Abandoned more than a decade ago by native fisherfolk, the islet is teeming with life these days. Its new residents are Vietnamese boat people who, having fled their homeland and braved the dangers of the high seas, expect to make it the departure point for a better life elsewhere. More than 4,500 refugees vie for space in Tai A Chau's dozen crumbling huts and 50 tents, and the number keeps rising. Last week alone more than...
Past attempts to implant fetal islet cells failed because a small percentage of these cells have antigenic markers that trigger an immune response. "The classic view was that since these antigens were genetically controlled, there was no way to remove them from the cell," says Kevin Lafferty, an Australian-born immunologist who is director of research at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Denver. In 1980, however, Lafferty discovered that culturing islet cells in an oxygen-rich environment for a couple of weeks kills those that bear trigger antigens. Says Calvin Stiller, an immunologist at the University...