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...other gene, CR1, codes for an immune system protein and may be involved in the body's ability to recognize the accumulating plaques of amyloid as foreign. If that's true, says Amouyel, then new treatments based on this approach might be possible. "Maybe there is some metabolic pathway that we can use to stimulate the immune system to work on CR1 to improve the clearance of amyloid," he says. "There may be new pharmacological targets, and this finding opens up ideas...
Making a Move on Health Care Ramesh Ponnuru makes the case that President Barack Obama's health-care plan might fail because it is filled with contradictions [Aug. 17]. It may not be perfect, but it is a program most Americans support. I think we have failed our system, not the other way around. We send people to Washington to do our work. Sadly, they don't provide us with the results we want. Instead, lobbyists for corporations get what they want. While we like to hold our system as a standard around the world, it is just not giving...
...There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up.' BARACK OBAMA, chiding opponents for doubting his Administration's plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system...
...beyond ironic that Kaplan, who died Aug. 23 at 90, became one of the central figures in the American meritocracy. The system was set up by reformers, but reformers from deep within the starchy education establishment. Kaplan, a dapper little man, the son of uneducated immigrants, was a complete outsider. He had gone into test prep only because he couldn't get into medical school...
...although Kaplan and his business represented the single most potent argument against the SAT--namely, that the test was not a great equalizer but rather part of a system that could be gamed by people with money--Kaplan was the exam's biggest fan. He depended on it economically--his company became enormously profitable after he sold it to the Washington Post in the 1980s--but more than that, he sincerely loved it. He thought it represented a doorway to opportunity that could be pried open through the application of a little money and willpower. That was something that hadn...