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...dividing, IF works best when they are dormant and in the so-called resting stage. Interferon also seems to issue a call to arms to the general immune system. It marshals macrophages, scavenger cells that gobble up foreign material, and increases both the numbers and activity of another specialized group of lymphocytes, known as natural killer cells. All types of interferon boost the defense system, but the IF produced by T cells may do it best, perhaps because, as Pathologist Robert Friedman of the National Institutes of Health says, it is more of an "insider," a substance tailor-made...
...London, the House of Commons endorsed a boycott, raising the pressure on the British Olympic Association to do so when the group makes its decision this week. Yet Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's tactics-like her threat to deny paid leave to competitors holding government jobs-angered athletes. At last count, 78 of Britain's 108 Olympic athletes said they still plan to attend...
...American Abstraction," being held in the "alternative space" of a rehabilitated New York City school building called P.S. 1, is a modest sort of landmark. It has been some years since any New York museum paid much attention to what black artists were doing. There was a flurry of group shows in the late '60s and early '70s, and then the subject was all but dropped. A few of the artists in the diverse P.S. 1 show are fairly well known through private galleries in Manhattan. Others are not. Though small, the sample is illuminating...
...this Dream at the Loeb goes far beyond technical proficiency or dramatic virtuosity. The play demands total ensemble work not just for the sake of the number of major roles it contains but for the revelation of its multiple meanings, and the American Repertory Theater (ART) provides a group of performers with vocal skill, physical agility, and intellectual acumen. They present in transcendent clarity--sometimes in neon signs--the question at the heart of Shakespeare's play: how to create marital tranquility out of the irrational workings of love. Most of the refinements and elaborations director Alvin Epstein introduces serve...
Dean Rosovsky announced before vacation that he had offered positions to Nathan I. Huggins, a history professor at Columbia University, and to Franklin W. K night, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University, as well as to Levine. The Afro-American Executive Committee, a group formed by Rosovksy, recommended all three...