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Fortunately for the Bushes, Graves' disease is relatively easy to manage. But there is no sure way yet to stop the progression of multiple sclerosis and numerous other autoimmune disorders. Using an approach pioneered by Dr. Irun Cohen at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, researchers are working on vaccines that help tone down overactive immune systems by targeting rebel T cells. So far, American and Dutch researchers have injected these experimental vaccines into a handful of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Because the diseases are long-term disorders that are subject to spontaneous remissions, however...
...complexity theory. Shamir was at M.I.T. in the late '70s as an associate professor of mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T. code, of the new "public...
Died. S.Y. Agnon, 81, Israel's most honored author and only Nobel laureate; of a heart attack; in Rehovot, Israel. Born in Galicia, victim and observer of half a century of stateless limbo in Europe, Agnon wrote with the wisdom of experience in his touching chronicles of the contemporary Wandering Jew-the nameless exile returned to the European town of his youth in A Guest for the Night; Kafkaesque fables of Jews transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel in Two Tales. A virtual unknown in the West until 1966, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Israelis work harder at miracle making than the men and women of the famed research center that bears his name. Now marking its 25th anniversary, the Weizmann Institute for Science has grown from an obscure agriculture station in the desert town of Rehovot, 15 miles south of Tel Aviv, to a 250-acre complex with 17 major departments that explore everything from atomic physics and molecular biology to seismology. Even the Arabs recognize its importance. It was one of the first targets that Radio Cairo claimed had been destroyed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war-though not a single Egyptian...
...renowned chemist himself, Chaim Weizmann had originally hoped to establish a haven in Rehovot for émigré Jewish scientists. A number of illustrious names-Einstein, Bohr, Von Neumann -did advise the institute in its early years, but none chose to make it their permanent home. Instead of importing a scientific elite, Israel was forced to produce its own; 80% of the institute's permanent staff is Israeli. Unlike many labs elsewhere, it enjoys what its scientific council chief, Mathematician Joseph Gillis, calls "a negative brain drain": far more scientists are trying to get in than to leave...