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Call it a case of plumbing panic. Within two years, the President and Barbara Bush develop the same overactive thyroid disorder, and best-selling pooch Millie suffers from a bout of doggie lupus. Heightening the drama, doctors reveal that both of these diseases hail from the mysterious realm of autoimmune disorders, which occur when the body unaccountably begins attacking itself. Pundits confidently calculate the odds of such a coincidence at 1 in 3 million. Latter-day Clouseaus begin looking everywhere for a culprit. Dan Quayle raises questions about the ancient plumbing at the Naval Observatory -- the official 100-year...
Although we may never know precisely what triggered the Bushes' conditions, scientists have made extraordinary advances in just the past decade in understanding what goes wrong in autoimmune disorders such as Graves' disease. Their discoveries, driven in part by the intensive study of the AIDS epidemic, reveal that the immune system is not a single straightforward defense system but many elaborate systems whose cellular members constantly patrol the body looking for friends and challenging foes. "The immune system is very like the brain -- it has to recognize everything," says Dr. Howard Weiner, associate professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical...
However, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act begin to shed light on the process. The files show that the negotiations are often heated and contentious and reveal a number of potential flaws in the indirect cost reimbursement system...
Although many anticipated that the intensive review might reveal some wrongdoing, University administrators boasted that Harvard emerged from the review in perfect form...
...FLAGRANT SELF-PROMOTION in the book comes as no surprise to anyone acquainted with Dershowitz's talk-show hopping, but it is annoying nonetheless. Even in this age of "alibiography," I expected the book to reveal some of the foibles, frailty and folly that make humankind an interesting species. Chutzpah has none of that...