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...mechanism of IF's defense against viruses has also emerged. Explains Mathilde Krim, a researcher at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: "Interferon is a kind of chemical Paul Revere." When a virus invades a cell, instead of turning out the proteins needed to sustain the cell and other parts of the body, the manufacturing plant begins to produce carbon copies of the virus. Eventually bloated with the alien bodies, the cell almost literally comes apart at the seams and dies, spilling out its cargo of new viruses, which promptly move toward healthy cells to repeat the process...
Credit controls and a balanced budget are Carter's methods of limiting demand. The balanced budget is a fetish likely to accomplish little. Carter himself points out that every budget but one since 1961 has run a deficit--yet we managed to sustain minimal inflation during many of those years. The $13 billion Carter wants to cut from the budget--even the $18 billion in cuts he mistakenly promised his national television audience--would not significantly cut inflation. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, has said that "in a two-to-three-trillion dollar a year economy...
...doctor says Earle Spring should be allowed to die. Spring's wife and son concur. So does a probate court judge. Yet last week Spring, 78, who is senile, was still receiving the kidney dialysis treatments that sustain his life, while Justice Francis J. Quirico, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, tried to decide if there was any new evidence to justify reopening arguments on whether Spring himself would prefer to die. Quirico's decision could be important for the increasing numbers of Americans who, though severely ill like Spring, could be kept alive for years by modern...
...find it incredible that you published an article in which you admitted that the Shah used torture and murder to sustain his regime, and then excused him for those deeds because he wasn't as bad as Hitler. Well, my God-who is? How inhuman does a despot have to be for his evil to outweigh his usefulness...
...passed, and the painting is still contaminated by the fallout from its price. The dance of digits in front of one's eyes renders the thing "special," isolated, fetishistically rare. It not only removes the painting from the flow of discourse about experience that art is meant to sustain, but it makes the price part of the subject of the work, separating it, by implication, from everything else ever painted by Velázquez, turning it from one painting among others into a dead whale on a flatcar, a curiosity to be gawped at. To most people visiting...