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The gloss being put on the Moscow summit is that it is an intimate human drama, an Aquarius-Pisces encounter. Skeptics rightly fret at the danger in personalizing relations between the two powers: personal rapport is not the same as shared national interests. Yet Reagan is far more comfortable addressing...
The inside story of the past five years, much of it never before told, contains revelations that highlight the significance, and in some ways the . irony, of next week's encounter in Moscow. For example:
The invaders soon receive a rude shock, for they encounter one of nature's most incredible and complex creations: the human immune system. Inside the body, a trillion highly specialized cells, regulated by dozens of remarkable proteins and honed by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, launch an unending...
Now, however, scientists have a good grasp not only of the broad workings of the immune system but of many of the nitty-gritty details as well. In a typical infection, for example, a flu virus burrows into a cell in the lining of an air passage, takes over the...
While a healthy immune system may take as long as three weeks to complete the job against a specific flu virus, its next response to the same viral strain reaches full force immediately, and the invaders are overcome before they can do any significant damage. In other words, the body...