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...similar to the Corsican brothers," Jim Masland says...
...Vegas dealer, are constantly and speedily shuffled into different combinations. Coupled with mutations that occur as B cells divide into plasma cells, such genes, in theory at least, could account for as many as 10 million antibody variations. Other scientists have shown that T cells have a similar mechanism. Thus within the slowly evolving human being, the immune system is undergoing a rapid internal evolution of its own. And a good thing too. "If all we had to meet the microorganisms was true evolution," says NIH's William Paul, "we'd long ago have disappeared from the face...
...inoculated James Phipps, 8, with cowpox, then exposed him to smallpox six weeks later. The boy never came down with the disease, confirming that the immunization had worked. More than a century and a half passed before scientists knew the reason: the antigens on the cowpox virus are so similar to those on the smallpox virus that they can prime the immune system to repel a smallpox infection...
...four times in the past four years. Just one patient, now seriously ill, survives. Ten-month-old Michael Steward of Chicago received a new liver, pancreas, small intestine and part of the stomach in February to correct a congenital defect. Last week, a record 6 1/2 months after a similar operation, three-year-old Tabatha Foster of Madisonville, Ky., succumbed to cancer. The lesson: physicians have a great deal more to learn before they can manipulate the immune system at will...
...this a la carte approach to alliance membership confined to nuclear- deployment issues. France began the trend in 1966 when Charles de Gaulle closed down NATO bases and pulled his country out of the alliance's integrated command structure. Spain followed a similar tack in 1982: it joined NATO but kept its forces out of the chain of joint European command based outside Brussels. Last January, Madrid went a step further by ordering the U.S. to withdraw its 72 F-16 jet fighters from Torrejon air base. Greece has raised questions about U.S. bases on its soil. Such actions, says...