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...economic assistance. But many fear that Kim Jong Il may have decided that a nuclear deterrent is the only way to ward off the threat of U.S. military action to smash his regime, and that while pressure from neighbors such as China - which is North Korea's economic life-support system right now - could force Kim into agreements to refrain from developing atomic weapons, that he may have no intention of keeping such agreements...
...reason lies in the nature of the pathogens themselves. Bacteria are living organisms that, multiplying unchecked, damage bodily tissue. They can be destroyed by cutting off their life-support systems. Antibiotics defeat bacterial infections by attacking enzymes within the bacteria, allowing the body's immune system to mop them up. Viruses, however, are parasites incapable of reproducing on their own. They're inactive?that is, until they burrow into a host cell, taking over its functions in order to replicate and thereby destroying the host. Inside the body, they become vulnerable to drugs only after they invade a cell...
...happy ending, except that Jesica got the wrong organs--a heart and a pair of lungs from someone with type-A blood, not Jesica's type O. Her immune system rejected the organs, and over the next few days, Jesica suffered seizure after seizure and was sustained only by life-support machines. Her new heart, ravaged by the immune assault, started to fail, and Jesica's tale turned from the stuff of American mythology into that of American tragedy. After a rare second transplant, doctors on Saturday told her parents Jesica was brain dead...
...DABORD, 35, brother of former NBA player Bison Dele; in Chula Vista, California. Dabord was suspected of having killed Dele and two others aboard Dele's luxury catamaran near Tahiti and disposing of their bodies in the shark-infested waters. He died after his mother asked doctors to remove life-support that had been keeping him alive since Sept. 14, when he was found comatose on a Tijuana beach...
...last weekend of October and Harvard’s perfect season was on life-support as the Crimson trailed the Big Green 21-0 midway through the third quarter. All-Ivy senior quarterback Neil Rose and senior tailback Josh Staph, the team’s leading rusher, were injured and could only look on helplessly as the dream season spiraled into a nightmare. Junior tailback Nick Palazzo was playing with a nagging hamstring injury...