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Associate professor of pathology David H. Sherr demonstrated that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), present in automobile exhaust, cigarette smoke and lakes can suppress the immune system at levels 100 to 1000 times less than those at which the compounds are known to cause cancer...
Sherr' found that one PAH compound, benzopyrene, causes programmed cell death of B cells through interactions with a DNA-binding protein. This cell death could be related to the pollutants' ability to cause cancer at higher levels, the pathologist said...
...supply-side culture was one of the worst legacies of the Reagan years. Though the Great Communicator was frustrated in his attempt to abolish the Endowment in 1981, he made sure that more Government money went to military bands than to the entire budget of the NEA. Oom-pah-pah culture to , fit a time of oom-pah-pah politics. After all, who could say that the arts needed support outside the marketplace at a time when star orchestra conductors were treated like sacred elephants and the art market was turning into a freakish potlatch for new money...
...take away stationary place to drink, then provide more highway space on which to go drinking and driving. With natural selection fading out of vogue, the government must have thought this was the perfect way to rid our nation of the stupid and dangerous. And for us innocent civilians?--pah! let us dodge...
Chances are that if you hit Harvard Square Sunday afternoon you were lassoed into a juggling act, were engulfed with the Oompah-pah music of the Hofbrau Boys Bavarian Band, or were enticed by the mixed aromas of Mexican tacos, fried dough or Italian sausage that filled...