Word: prods
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Antibodies are also being drafted to prod the immune system into attacking cancer cells. Clinicians have long dreamed of marshaling the body's own defenses to fight cancer, if only they could get the immune system to recognize cancer cells as easily as it spots foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruses. Researchers at Dendreon Corp. in Seattle have found a way to do just that by enlisting dendritic cells, some of the body's most potent immune stimulators...
...Ellen Frankfort wrote in the Village Voice, Kennedy tried to use "illogic to prod into consciousness the undercover connections between the wastes of the body and the stench of the body politic...
Antibodies are also being drafted to prod the immune system itself into attacking cancer cells. Clinicians have long dreamed of marshalling the body’s own defenses against cancer, if only they could get the immune system to recognize cancer cells as easily as it spots foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses. Researchers at Dendreon Corporation, in Seattle, Wash., have found a way to do just that by enlisting dendritic cells, some of the body’s most potent immune stimulators...
...other 60-odd counties hit with a judicial cattle prod Friday night, most canvassing boards were still scrambling for guidance and starting the process of culling out the undervotes from piles as large as 291,000 ballots in Duval County (which had the benefit of Miami-Dade's sorting software) and some 200,000 in Hillsborough. Some had expected to meet Judge Terry Lewis' 2 p.m. Sunday deadline; some were shooting for Monday or later...
...Western governments are trying to prod Milosevic into leaving, but after last year's bombings they don't exactly wield much influence in Belgrade. Their best bet for diplomatic leverage remains Moscow, which played the key role in persuading the Serb strongman to back down in Kosovo. Diplomatic efforts are reportedly afoot to coax Milosevic into leaving Serbia and seeking asylum either in Russia or Belarus to avoid prosecution in the Hague. But that may be overstating his immediate crisis - after all, Kostunica has stated that he's not interested in sending Milosevic for trial as a war criminal...