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Autoimmune responses follow a similar course, but the cells targeted belong to the body. "Biological-response modifiers," as the new drugs are known, tamp down that response by blocking communication between the immune system's soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For Cures: Autoimmune Diseases | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Autoimmune responses follow a similar course, except that the cells targeted belong to the body. "Biological response modifiers," as the latest drugs are known, tamp down that response by disrupting communication between the immune system’s soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immune System Disorders | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...side, there's the realization that no matter how intense the violence, he's unlikely to persuade the international community to send in a U.N. peacekeeping force. Solidifying the diplomatic gains he's made over the past two months may now require that he act more forcefully to tamp down violence and return to the negotiating table with greater international backing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Arafat and Barak May Seek a Little Calm | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

Yasser Arafat may be having a hard time keeping Palestinian militants in line with his latest cease-fire agreement, but Ehud Barak could find his own plans to tamp down the violence being second-guessed by Israeli settlers. With Israel's deadline for an end to the violence due to expire Friday amid the noontime Muslim prayers that have often touched off fresh waves of rage, the tenuous cease-fire reached at Sharm el-Sheik is under new strain following a firefight that raged into the night near Nablus Thursday. The incident, in which one Palestinian and one Israeli were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nablus Firefight Exposes a Flaw in Peace Efforts | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

...then maintain unity among NATO's 19-headed coalition. Every morning she gets up at 6 to begin her daily round of hand-holding phone calls. Some are made from her cozy working office at State, others from her Georgetown home. Sometimes she calls a wavering minister directly to tamp down a renegade plan; at other times she will do a bank shot by having Britain's Robin Cook or Germany's Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer call them. The goal is simple: make sure that no country wavers from NATO's aims or sends mixed signals to Milosevic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine's War | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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