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That may be an understatement. Immunologist Leroy Hood of the California Institute of Technology is certain that the lymphokines discovered so far are "just the tip of the iceberg" and that more subcategories of T cells will be found. He emphasizes that scientists do not yet fully understand, among other things, how B and T cells differentiate, and how the immune system's genes are turned on and off at different times. "In the truest sense," he says, "immunology is just in its youth." Still, says Sherwin, "there's an enormous amount we know now that we didn't know...
...sensational tip of Regan's revelatory iceberg broke into the headlines last week, it evoked titillation among Washington insiders and an angry response from Ronald Reagan. "I would have preferred it if he decided to attack me," he said on Friday. "From what I hear, he's chosen to attack my wife, and I don't look kindly on that...
Kennedy, 35, is scheduled to make a formal announcement of his bid on May 21. He succeeded former House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill in 1986, surviving an 11-candidate primary battle for the seat and then handily defeating Republican Clark C. Abt by better than two-to-one in the general election...
...same day that Disney released the film, Roy Disney made a splash of his own by resigning from the board to launch an effort to oust the top management. He sensed an outside takeover looming, which he aimed to fend off. Meanwhile, Manhattan Raider Saul Steinberg, hearing a tip about Disney's turmoil, began to buy a huge chunk of its stock. Contending that Disney was worth more money in pieces than as a whole, Steinberg proposed to sell off everything but the theme parks...
...tip my hat also to Glenn Orenstein for his critique of Matthew Joseph's silly suggestion that Jesse Jackson is intrinsically barred from a presidential race. Jackson's campaign is constitutionally legitimate and is essentially a campaign to further political inclusion of weak and marginal strata, Blacks being prominent among them. Such presidential campaigns are hardly new in American politics. Furthermore, Jackson is hardly the only presidential candidate of significance who never held elected office as governor or congressman; neither Grant nor Eisenhower held these offices, and at the intellectual level they were boobs compared to Jackson...