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...their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face-high a meter away. This is not the place to suffer even a minor injury...
...bout of malaria would lead to lifelong protection against the disease. But for complicated reasons, that is not the case. The illness tends to be less severe in adults who are continually exposed to the parasites. But when young children become infected, they are much more likely to suffer severe anemia and convulsions that may lead to permanent brain damage and death...
...that's not true for everyone, and researchers would love to identify the psychological quirks that protect some people and sabotage others. Small studies suggest that the immune systems of optimistic law students are more robust than those of pessimists and that worrywarts suffer deeper hits to their immune system after a traumatic event than do nonworriers...
...wonder celiac disease is known as the great pretender, and why it takes an average of 11 years to diagnose. An expert panel convened by the National Institutes of Health last month estimated that some 3 million Americans may suffer from the illness--10 times as many as doctors once thought. The disease is not just discomforting; gluten from wheat, rye, barley and several other grains triggers an immune response that attacks the lining of the intestines, cutting down on the absorption of calcium, iron and other nutrients...
...fall under suspicion," protests Kamel Kabtane, president of the Rhône-Alps Regional Muslim Council. "Rampant Islamophobia now in France leads everyone to blame the Muslim community." Michel Wieviorka, director of the Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention, a research lab in Paris, agrees that non-Jews suffer less dramatic but more common discrimination, encountering "overt racism as well as daily prejudice. Acts of discrimination - from being rejected entry to a disco to being passed over for a job - are so common they aren't even reported," Wieviorka says. Crimes that are reported - and draw media attention - are often...