Word: israel
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Would such a strategy work? It has for Israel for more than 15 years. Would such a strategy be costly? Certainly, but much less so than a bloody war and a global recession...
...miles, we will not witness the immense loss of life that will result; initial estimates indicate that an invasion of Kuwait will cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, even without the use of poison gas. We will not suffer the consequences of a regional escalation of the conflict; if Israel is drawn into the fray, the entire Middle East could soon be at war, perhaps nuclear war, and deaths could run to the millions...
...future, researchers imagine launching molecular missiles that will seek out and destroy the rogue immune cells that cause Type I diabetes. They also envision a vaccine that will rally the immune system against the traitors in its ranks. "Intellectually," says immunologist Dr. Terry Strom of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, "we are on the right track...
...people, cells quickly become sated and sluggish. They reduce their sensitivity to insulin and, thus, their appetite for glucose. To compensate, the pancreas heroically pumps out more and more insulin. Usually it is able to keep up with the work load. As Dr. Jeffrey Flier, an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Hospital, emphasizes, "Most obese people do not have diabetes." In susceptible individuals, however, obesity can overload the system, and insulin-producing cells begin to stop functioning. One intriguing, if controversial, hypothesis suggests that obese people may produce large quantities of amylin, a protein made by the same cells that secrete...
...threatened, when it had a clear moral justification and the support of a worldwide coalition, when would it? Letting Iraq's aggression stand is a recipe for a world of endless aggressions, of local and not-so- local wars, some possibly nuclear (India vs. Pakistan for a fourth round? Israel against the Arabs yet again?), and of bloody chaos from which the U.S. could not forever stand aloof...