Word: neutral
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...team made progress on one front, Ernest grew increasingly worried about the immune system's response to the transplants. Contrary to what many had supposed, fetal RPE cells did not behave as if they were immunologically neutral. In experiments in Sweden, for example, transplanted cells were rejected. And Ernest's team found that adding fetal RPE cells to laboratory cultures sent white blood cells, which attack transplanted tissue, into overdrive. Curiously, however, adding even greater numbers of RPE cells to the culture appeared to force the white blood cells into a quiescent state, thus lowering the chances of rejection. Pearl...
...East Jerusalem is inappropriate because it ignores the political and geographical realities of Jerusalem today and is prejudicial because it adopts the Arab position in advance of the permanent-status negotiations of the peace process. The Crimson could have corrected this error by substituting with the more appropriate and neutral eastern Jerusalem...
...edition of the Colebrook, N.H., weekly newspaper, the News and Sentinel ("Independent but Not Neutral"), is filled with the details and delights of North Country life and small-town journalism. A piece on the upcoming Moose Festival invites "moose-minded people" to come forward for the Mock Moose Parade on Friday night. There is a captivating photograph of a boy who won the Kids Fishing Derby. Among the many stories written by Dennis Joos is a feature on the discovery of a vintage sign that puts neighboring Clarksville on the 45th parallel, halfway between the North Pole and the equator...
...visualize how the ENSO cycle works, think of the Pacific Ocean as a big bathtub, with a fan stirring up air representing the trade winds. In the ENSO cycle's neutral or cold phase, these winds blow from east to west, pushing water away from the South American coast, so that the ocean's surface is a couple of feet lower off Peru than it is off Indonesia. The difference, although seemingly small, has important consequences: to replace the water that the winds have swept away, cold, nutrient-rich water from the depths wells up, and so Peru's waters...
City government has not remained neutral. On the agenda of this week's meeting was a reaffirmation of support for the "duly elected" original leadership of the CSNC by Mayor Shelia Doyle Russell...