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Because microbial infections keep finding ways to outsmart antibiotics, doctors are convinced that vaccines are a better way to combat bacterial disease. A vaccine is usually made from a harmless fragment of microbe that trains the body's immune system to recognize and fight the real thing. Each person's immune system is chemically different from everyone else's, so it's very difficult for a bacterium to develop a shield that offers universal protection. Diphtheria and tetanus can be prevented by vaccines if they are used properly. A vaccine against the pneumococcus bacterium has recently come...
...BOWL IS OFTEN A GAME in search of a theme. Hundreds, perhaps thousands will be proposed before the official kickoff at 3:18 p.m. PST this Sunday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Can the coach who was a Phi Beta Kappa at Coe College (Buffalo's Marv Levy) outsmart the good ole boy who once presided over the obstreperous hired guns at the University of Miami (Dallas' Jimmy Johnson)? Can the American Football Conference ever win another Super Bowl, having lost 10 of the past 11 to the National Football Conference? Will the half-time show be a total...
...TRIED TO OUTSMART ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN...
...will be sitting down with revamped aid applications, about to be issued, to figure out a host of revised rules that take effect Jan. 1. In many cases, the goal will be to look poorer on paper than they really are. Just how unethical is it, they wonder, to outsmart a system they feel is itself unfair? Parents contend that they are penalized if they save for college or their children take part-time jobs, since such savings reduce the amount of aid they can qualify for. Families who rent their homes may now appear just as rich on paper...
Arguing with nature's foes isn't that easy. Timber industry executives are no dummies. They try to outsmart their opponents by claiming they're better for the environment than the environmentalists. Tisdale quotes a pamphlet issued by the Caterpillar company--manufacturer of bulldozers and cranes needed to remove the Northwest's oldest trees--as an example of this absurd attempt to fool those opposed to the clearcutting: "The Facts Say: Forests do not necessarily improve with age. Decaying stands lack the food resources animals require. Density of old stands blocks sunlight, discouraging new growth...