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...good because it keeps LDL from combining with oxygen in the first place. But doctors at UCLA studying HDL in mice have found that when the immune system is under stress--after surgery, for example, or during a major infection--HDL stops producing an enzyme called paraoxynase and thus loses its antioxidant properties. When good cholesterol goes bad, moreover, it goes really bad. Not only does it stop protecting the body against LDL, but it also seems to goad the immune system into forming plaques even more quickly...
...subject of those weapons, however, Iraq also admitted that yes, they have been "hiding" some of their key military equipment while the inspectors are locked out. "It looks a little bit like, 'the cat's away, the mice will play,'" said the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard Butler ? an Australian. And what exactly are the mice playing at? "They could have enough anthrax to fill a warhead in one week," Butler later warned...
...recalls walking on a rail over hundreds of rats, and then seeing one of the actors sitting down with hundreds of mice crawling all over...
...avoid stepping on bugs, didn't hesitate to shoot the beings whose distinguishing characteristics are a slithering gait, a forked tongue and hypodermic-needle fangs that can (if they belong to Australia's cobra-like inland taipan) deliver enough venom in a single bite to kill 200,000 mice...
...still be harbored in higher concentrations in lymph nodes, where it is equally if not more dangerous to the body's immune system. Already, drug-resistant strains have appeared. A recent study from the National Cancer Institute even shows that AZT causes cancer in the offspring of pregnant mice treated with...