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Salt Lake City is thousands of miles from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but the shadows of those crumbled buildings will nevertheless loom large over the Winter Games. This week, Attorney General John Ashcroft acknowledged unprecedented safety concerns by assigning still more federal officers to an already massive law enforcement presence...
...appointing Nazir-Ali as the 104th Primate of All England might be tempting as an inclusive gesture to the Anglican Communion - and, since he is an Islam expert, a pragmatic one. "This may indeed influence the choice," says Austin. "But the bishop is worthy of the job anyway." Nevertheless, by the end of week, Nazir-Ali had dropped from first to third favorite, with 4-1 odds, according to bookmakers William Hill...
...articles was criticized by Bush advisers, who are adamant that the treaty does not apply to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners. The White House is worried that granting the detainees anything but a terrorist label will make it harder to interrogate them about Osama bin Laden's network. Nevertheless, at a National Security Council meeting today, they were expected to review the detainees' status...
Lovell, who is the sort of writer who refers to "hare coursing" without elucidation and uses expressions like "mad keen," is perhaps too embedded in the Mitfords' world to provide the perfect introduction for contemporary American readers. Nevertheless, books containing such choice lines as Muv's lament, "Oh, why do all my daughters fall for dictators?" are few indeed, and we must cherish every one of them...
Cancer would seem to be the last disease you could prevent or treat with a vaccine. After all, infection plays no role in cancer, except in a few rare types of malignancy. And a cancer cell, unlike an invading pathogen, isn't wholly foreign to the body. Nevertheless, researchers are learning that the immune system can even be trained to go after tumors. CanVaxin, for example, a vaccine for the deadly skin cancer melanoma, is made from cancer-cell lines taken from three different patients; among them, they express more than 20 disabled tumor antigens that the immune system...