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...many kinds of invading organisms. Fungal growths corrode the skin and lungs. Normally dormant parasites in the lungs become active, causing Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. As viruses and bacteria multiply out of control, competing for body cells and destroying them far faster than they can be replaced, victims can be stricken with severe cases of herpes and tuberculosis. What is more, they lose their resistance to some types of cancer, particularly Kaposi's sarcoma...
...much safer approach to immunology was made in 1796, when Edward Jenner decided it was more than coincidence that milkmaids stricken with a mild form of the cattle disease called cowpox were rarely victims of smallpox. He 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...
...video screens and refereed by a surreal punk; the production hopscotches from a Tyrolean resort to British boardrooms to Bangkok's red-light district, each cartoonishly evoked. Nunn took over in London, two weeks before rehearsals started, when the late Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls) was stricken with AIDS. Says Nunn: "By the time I came into the project, it was designed and cast, and the basic narrative decisions had been taken...
...Hormuz delivered a laser-guided cluster bomb that disabled the * Sabalan. Even though the Sabalan was the ship that had been targeted to be sunk by the Navy because of its frequent attacks on merchant ships in the gulf, Carlucci and Crowe ordered naval commanders not to sink the stricken vessel, hoping to limit Iranian casualties. The U.S. also damaged or destroyed three Iranian speedboats, bringing to six the total number of vessels lost by Iran...
...asks a peasant in the state of Guerrero who earns $10 a day from his poppy field, $8 more than the agricultural farmers. "We have to live." In Sonora the tale is told of an up-and-coming trafficker, known as El Cejaguera (Blond Eyebrows), who visited several drought-stricken farms, handed the proprietors cash- stuffed envelopes, then disappeared without a word...