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President Clinton doesn't mind taking on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, but the last thing he needs just now is to open a second front against the military-industrial complex. And that is what he was facing after the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a closed-door meeting with him, threatened to go over his head to Congress to get a bigger budget. So, clever politician that he is, Clinton last week signaled his support for an increase in military spending of as much as $15 billion, or 5%, a year...
That reversal evoked smiles not only at the Pentagon but also on Capitol Hill, where Clinton needs any support he can scrounge, and where lawmakers in both parties welcome extra spending in their districts to keep redundant military bases open and weapons contractors hiring. The Joint Chiefs will testify before Congress this week, and despite the inconvenient dearth of serious foreign threats, they will enjoy a warm reception...
Bringing together an unparalleled array of scientists, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (JDF) and the Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently initiated a vigorous joint effort to find a cure for Type I diabetes...
...excitement began with a growing understanding of how rheumatoid arthritis works. Unlike its more common cousin, osteoarthritis, which causes pain in more than 20 million mostly older Americans through simple deterioration of joint cartilage, rheumatoid arthritis is a complex disease involving an immune system gone awry...
Most experts believe the trigger for rheumatoid arthritis is an ordinary infection in a joint, to which the immune system mounts an ordinary response. Then, for some unknown reason, the white blood cells that are fighting invading microbes attack the joint itself--specifically the synovial sac, which acts as both a cushion that keeps bones from banging together and a source of lubricating fluid. Even as the white cells attack, they send out signals, in the form of hormones called cytokines, that rally more troops to their aid. Meanwhile, the besieged synovial cells secrete prostaglandins, which cause inflammation. All this...