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That effort has paid off. After more than a decade of research, scientists now know that the immune system doesn't simply flick on and off like a light switch. Instead, it responds to a bacterial, viral or parasitic invasion with a combination of defensive weapons matched precisely to the severity of the threat...
This is not just a potato problem. It's also a problem with white bread, bagels and most white rice. But couch potatoes don't have to give up their spuds altogether, as long as they eat them in moderation. Or they could switch to sweet potatoes and yams, which metabolize less rapidly and wreak less havoc with blood sugar...
...Every time we've brought innovation into the marketplace, our customers have responded--strongly," Jobs says, claiming that it might not be so hard as it sounds. "We only have to attract 5 out of the other 95 people who use PCs to switch, and Apple doubles its market share." That, of course, would buy the company that much more breathing room...
...Europe, old fears about Y2K returned as 2K2 loomed. Jan. 1 was the date for the 12-nation switch to one currency, and in the hours leading up to it, there were nightmare scenarios about riots and self-destructing cash machines as lire, francs, guilders, pesetas and deutsche marks were converted into euros...
Even better, it all pretty much went according to plan. In the hours leading up to the Jan.1 switch, there were still a few nagging anxieties that the euro could turn out to be a Y2K-like disaster for real. But those visions of self-destructing cash machines and riots in supermarkets didn't materialize. True, the banking network was stretched pretty thin. Banksys, the group that operates Belgium's atms, recorded some 600 cash withdrawals a minute in the first two hours of the new year. Two hundred Dutch post offices, which also function as banks for many small...