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...journal Science, "bacteria are cleverer than men." Just as they have adapted to nearly every environmental niche on the planet, they have now begun adjusting to a world laced with antibiotics. It didn't take long. Just a year or two after penicillin went into widespread use, the first resistant strain of staph appeared. As other antibiotics came along, microbes found ways to resist them as well, through changes in genetic makeup. In some cases, for example, the bacteria gained the ability to manufacture an enzyme that destroys the antibiotic...
...white blood cells, called CD-8 cells, whose job is to turn down the immune system before it careers out of control. Perhaps these people possess just the right balance between an overly aggressive immune system that produces more virus particles and a dangerously passive one that cannot resist infections...
...instance, regulates hunters down to the number of shotgun pellets allowed in heavily hunted areas; while Alabama's idiosyncratic "coon on a log" law is more liberal, permitting the maintenance of up to 10 captured raccoons during a season for use in demonstrating "the abilities of the raccoon to resist being retrieved or taken from a log in a lake by a dog and the ability of the respective dogs to retrieve raccoons...
...Wolf," with its all-star cast of Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, retells the gothic werewolf story without any spark or creativity. Rent it on video, if you can't resist...
...must include Syria, the hostile power to Israel's north and the de facto ruler of Lebanon. The crucial next decision is up to Syrian President Hafez Assad, who sits brooding in Damascus as the self-proclaimed embodiment of Arab nationalism. Will he join the trend or try to resist...