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...emitted even this weak chemical signal. But when the researchers correlated the results, they discovered a startling pattern: only eggs that emitted the "come hither" message were successfully fertilized. "This indicated to us that attraction may indeed be a key process in fertilization," says Michael Eisenbach at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. Now Eisenbach is trying to find out whether this phenomenon could be exploited to help treat the most stubborn infertility cases...
Fortunately for the Bushes, Graves' disease is relatively easy to manage. But there is no sure way yet to stop the progression of multiple sclerosis and numerous other autoimmune disorders. Using an approach pioneered by Dr. Irun Cohen at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, researchers are working on vaccines that help tone down overactive immune systems by targeting rebel T cells. So far, American and Dutch researchers have injected these experimental vaccines into a handful of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Because the diseases are long-term disorders that are subject to spontaneous remissions, however...
...outlining the future, the German army issued orders that all able-bodied British males between the ages of 17 and 45 were to be interned and shipped to the Continent. The list of people to be arrested by the Gestapo ranged from Bertrand Russell to Chaim Weizmann to Virginia Woolf...
...incidentally, those founders -- David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann -- detested the Stern Gang that was implicated in terrorist bombings and assassinations. Shamir was one of its most notorious members. If Israel refuses to budge on the West Bank, it could, over time, become just another Levantine war zone pretending to be a country, in which latter-day equivalents of the Stern Gang battle with the most extremist of the Palestinians...
Some Israelis echoed Weizmann's concerns. They feared that the attack might backfire, unleashing a vengeful and more virulent wave of violence in the territories, strengthening extremist forces within the P.L.O. and weakening the already thin prospects for a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "Abu after Abu can be liquidated," warned Knesset Member Yossi Sarid. "But this will not liquidate the Palestinian problem...