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...more devastating errors of the immune system involves its failure to distinguish between self and nonself, resulting in so-called autoimmune diseases, which can be crippling and sometimes fatal. Dozens of disorders that once mystified doctors are now thought to be autoimmune. Among them: Type 1 diabetes, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. In these and other autoimmune diseases, the immune system mounts a selective and ferocious assault against parts of the body, destroying cells or cell components that it mistakenly identifies as alien...
...seem that way, but Diva Beverly Sills is the retiring type. At twelve, she was the girl on the Rinso White radio commercials. Then she retired. By 32, she had come back and was a leading singer at the New York City Opera. Then she retired. By 49, she had not only returned but was also the company's prima donna. Again she retired. Last week the brilliant coloratura soprano announced that next January she will once more retire, this time from her incarnation as director of City Opera. "So far," says Sills, "I have been lucky to know...
...dangers, Ohio is the only state that regulates the tanning industry, although several other states, including California, are considering legislation. U.S. Food and Drug Administration safety standards, which include warnings to wear goggles and limit exposure, are patchily enforced. Most sun- lamp worshipers assume they are protected because the type of radiation produced in most tanning machines is largely UVA (alpha) light instead of UVB (beta) light, which quickly reddens fair skin. Although alpha rays do not appear to burn, says Dr. Michael Franzblau, president of the Congress of California Dermatological Societies, "they're even more dangerous because...
Ironically, the rough-sex defense may require an attractive defendant to succeed. It will work only if the accused is "sympathetic, not a hardened type of character," says New York Attorney Thomas Puccio. It may also require a certain kind of jury to accept the premise that young women might pursue the ultimate in unsafe sex. During jury selection in the Chambers trial, recalls Defense Jury Consultant Andrea Longpre, "we were looking for people who had grown up in the '60s and '70s. Young people who were experimenting with life." Whatever the truth about her death, Kathleen Holland's experiments...
...coughed up by the Reagan era. He is a landlord: 50,000 apartments, along with other real estate. She is the self-proclaimed "queen" of his hotel chain, famous for being nasty to the help, and a walking exaggeration of every cliche about the second wife as a social type. The obvious diagnosis of what ails the Helmsleys -- greed -- doesn't explain much, either morally or practically. Few of us lack greed. And, in our economic system, there is nothing wrong with greed. A variety of diagrams and mathematical formulas is available to show how capitalism usually channels individual greed...