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...wind and embezzle the $100,000 or so into their personal bank accounts. No doubt they got off on their glittering social calendars and their circle of tender, affectionate friends but it’s still unconvincing that social status alone made it worth ten long years of uniforms, lock-downs and cement walls...
More positive results came on Saturday, as McLoon took 12th in the 15k and the women’s nordic team finished the weekend with 98 points and a solid lock on seventh place—well ahead of Bowdoin, St. Lawrence, St. Michael’s and Colby...
...many as were released in 1980, before crack, before zero tolerance, before truth-in-sentencing policies and before 1.9 million people filled U.S. prisons and jails, the current record. Since 1980, the number of prisoners returning to society has steadily climbed. It's simple physics: the more people you lock up, the more you must one day let out. For 40% of those now in state prisons, that day arrives in the next 12 months...
That much was known decades ago; what drives vaccine researchers today is the effort to understand and manipulate this highly tuned system. The acquired immune response, for example, actually comes in two parts. The first involves antibodies, the molecules produced to match, like a key fitting into a lock, the multiple proteins that coat the surfaces of viruses and bacteria. The more keys on the immune cell's ring, the more likely that the cell can lock onto and destroy a pathogen...
...changing as researchers get a sense of how many instruments in the immune-system orchestra they have at their disposal, and how to get the best performance from them. With HIV, for example, the virus mutates too rapidly. No sooner has the acquired immune system learned to identify and lock in on it than HIV develops new antigens on its surface and turns invisible again...