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SKIN SAVER An experimental drug called alefacept seems to clear up many of the stubborn red patches and scaly-skin problems that plague psoriasis sufferers. Unlike standard treatment, which depresses the entire immune system, alefacept is designed to target only the renegade cells believed responsible for the disease...
...today the hopes of protest and politically irritant art have gone flat. Isms and groups have largely ceased to matter. What count for much more are those stubborn talents to whom the lyrical and the private are likely to be of more value than the collective. To such artists, beauty without cliche is a supreme goal, and there is probably none around who exemplifies this shift better than the sculptor Martin Puryear...
...Arroyo is also impulsive, famously stubborn, with a tendency to do things her own way and on her own?pretty dangerous habits when dealing with a serious hostage crisis. The U.S. is publicly backing Arroyo's guns-blazing approach, but some Washington counterterrorism experts are worried. Says one official: "We need a more coordinated, deliberate Philippine strategy, rather than running blindly through the jungle in hot pursuit, putting the hostages at maximum risk...
...greeting cards, and even more time imagining intended recipients' reactions. I think I was hoping the perfect card would make it easier to tell the cute guy in chem lab why I was always spilling chemicals on myself when he walked by, or would help me overcome my stubborn streak and finally apologize to a once-close friend. And sometimes the cards worked their magic exactly as I'd hoped - one particularly successful Valentine's Day card paved the way to my first semi-serious relationship. (In ninth-grade terms, of course, that phrase means that we "dated" for more...
...When Mansfield first announced his change in grading policy, his "backhanded benevolence" was lauded by The Crimson editorial staff and students. Even those who had supported his stubborn refusal to inflate grades praised him for not wanting to penalize the brave students who take his classes...