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Shedding greater light on the human body’s first-line defense against the flu virus, the researchers found that the family of flu-fighting proteins—called the interferon-inducible transmembrane (IFITM) proteins—prevented or slowed down most virus particles from infecting human cells early in the lifecycle of the virus. The team reported its findings in an online journal on Thursday...
...will follow. "I'm fairly confident that there's a point that he won't go past and there's a question of whether that's a satisfactory ending point for the debate," says Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican. Graham, after all, knows when to draw the line. Earlier this year he was the only Republican willing to work with the Administration to close Guantanamo. But when the Administration, over his objections, decided to bring detainees to trial in federal court, he walked away...
...despite Serbia's newfound enthusiasm for the rest of Europe, officials caution against expecting any swift E.U. accession. Slovenia is the only former Yugoslav republic that has managed to join the bloc; Serbia now joins Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Turkey and Iceland in an ever-lengthening line of aspiring candidates. Almost all of the other applicants are further along the path to membership. And within the E.U., there is growing resistance toward adding new members, a sentiment known as "enlargement fatigue" following the recent accession of a dozen mainly eastern European countries...
...through the painful but essential process of breaking from the stranglehold of the nationalist ideologies that led to the wars," says Alvaro de Vasconcelos, director of the Paris-based E.U. Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) think tank. (See pictures of Mitrovica, a northern Kosovar town on the dividing line of Serbian-Albanian tension...
...suffered from a slew of recent service interruptions. On Monday, there were delays at the Porter Square station while a wall panel was removed due to water leakage. Last week, a Green Line train derailed near Copley Square, resulting in no injuries but long delays...