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...long time, researchers have accepted that natural selection takes place in the formation of the immune system. It was believed that huge numbers of white blood cells, which destroy antigens, were created, and that upon invasion, these cells compete to ward off the organism. Only a few are successful, and these multiply to create the millions of cells present in our immune systems...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Organic Cells Compete for Survival, Too | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...Violence, an advocacy group: "If Canada doesn't return Ng to the U.S. unconditionally, then Canada's status as a haven for capital-murder cases will be guaranteed." Concurs Bill Domm, a Member of Parliament: "We should not be judging the American justice system." In the U.S., argues Ward Campbell, a California deputy attorney general, "we have a system for capital punishment that gives the defendant unparalleled procedural protection." In fact, California has not executed anyone for 24 years. Mass murderers Charles Manson and Juan Corona were sentenced to death, but their sentences were commuted to life in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fate Better Than Death | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...Thatcher did not mince any words. No one should interfere with this objective, she declared. Saddam should not have even the shadow of a doubt that the world community would step back. It would achieve its objectives. No one should even try to ward off the blow against the Saddam regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inside Story of Moscow's Quest For a Deal | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...took more than two years of private investigation and $396,000 of his personal fortune. But last week when two rangers from Masai Mara National Park were charged with the murder of his daughter Julie, John Ward made a major breakthrough in his quest for justice. The disappearance of the 28-year-old woman in the game park in September 1988 became a cause celebre in the British press. After her mutilated and burned remains were found by Ward, who was accompanied by park rangers, Kenyan authorities said she had been eaten by wild animals. But Ward, the owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: A Private Quest For Justice | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

Accused are Jonah Tajeu Magiroi, 28, and Peter Metui Kipeen, 26, who police now believe took Julie Ward into their rangers' camp after her Suzuki four- wheel-drive vehicle broke down in the park. Investigators think that radio trouble kept the men from calling for assistance and that she stayed with them for about a week on friendly terms before an altercation led to her murder. John Ward is expected to be a witness at the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: A Private Quest For Justice | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

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