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...ANTIGEN OVERLOADING. Though there are at least two major types of antibody represented by billions of particles, they can be either confused or exhausted if the invading particles of foreign antigen (antibody-triggering substances) are numerous enough. In the medical equivalent of a massive military diversion, doctors try to overload the immune mechanism temporarily by flooding it with antigen particles. By coincidence, an antigen sufficiently similar to the human type is in some streptococci. So these bacteria, usually rated as harmful, are being mass-produced in a program backed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The antigen...
...Mary Martyr is a game in which women excel. The participant undertakes all manner of thankless tasks with no sign of complaint, "except for the darkening circles under her eyes," until some kind soul "tries to relieve her of her overload-which ruins everything...
...Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America. Art was confident that he had licked Green Monster's handling problems by adding a hydraulically operated "spoiler," or fin, designed to counteract the torque overload that had caused the blowouts...
...crisis and disruption to achieve it. As Cloward sees it, welfare is a "savage and barbarous" system that strips recipients of all dignity. If millions of the poor could be shown how to claim all the benefits to which they are legally entitled, Cloward believes, they would so overload welfare rolls that Congress would have no choice but to enact a guaranteed minimum income...