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That marked the second victory this year: in February the VA awarded similar payments to vets with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and soft-tissue sarcoma, two forms of cancer. But the government continues to reject claims that Agent Orange causes lung cancer, and veterans argue that the VA imposes so many restrictions that few survivors will actually benefit...
...puzzles: How do you sneak a foreign organ past the body's immune system, which is dedicated to the proposition that all alien tissue is dangerous and should be destroyed? On the one hand, doctors try to disable the body's defenses just enough so that they will not reject the transplant. Here the trick is not to go overboard and completely cripple the immune system, leaving the body open to attack by deadly viruses and bacteria. On the other hand, they try to cajole the body's defenders into accepting the graft...
...Even so, the leap from subsistence farming to suburbia can be wrenching, especially for the elderly. "The old ones pay the price," says Gad Ben-Ari, spokesman for the quasi-official Jewish Agency. "We can support them but I doubt they'll become Israelis." Eager to conform, the young reject traditional customs and cuisine while the village religious leaders, known as kessim, become increasingly irrelevant. "It's very hard to preserve our culture," says Messele. "How will we teach the next generation to be silent and respectful...
Chave has alleged that the Pulitzers used their friendship with Angelica Z. Rudenstine, who is close to Bok, to persuade the outgoing Harvard president to reject her candidacy...
...University contends that so long as it negotiates "with due diligence," the agency cannot legally make a unilateral ruling. HHS officials flatly reject this position and other such legal positions the University has taken...