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When a crowd armed with donuts and taco sauce gathered at the San Francisco Chronicle's office last Thursday, they were prepared for spicy, sugary violence over the loss of their favorite daily comic strip. A reader poll had shown Bill Griffith's "Zippy the Pinhead" to be unpopular despite having first appeared as a daily in San Francisco over fifteen years ago. Had the city changed so much that it could no longer tolerate the strip's non-conformist structure and idiosyncratic ramblings? Most of America doesn't understand "Zippy," the best daily comic strip printed today. Here...
...officials say some holders of VIP cards, issued by the Israelis to top Palestinian officials, used their ability to travel with few checks across the bridges from Jordan to smuggle arms, until Israel cracked down during the intifadeh. Tunnels dug 50 ft. below the sandy border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt have also served as conduits for arms. Israeli troops found two such tunnels last week and destroyed them. Last May Israel intercepted a boat headed to the Gaza Strip and discovered a haul that included Strella shoulder-launched ground-to-air missiles--the Russian equivalent of the Stinger...
...high wore off, the party moved to a nearby crack house, just blocks from the shelter. At 5:30, the police descended, and Sanders didn't run. They found a small rock of crack in his waistband. "They were very courteous," Sanders said of the police. After being strip-searched and photographed, Sanders sat quietly on the floor of the holding cell, processing the notion that he'd just sent himself back to prison. "I lost my mind. I did it to myself," he said by way of explanation. He made no phone calls...
Sometimes, though, the bugs use biochemical trickery to disguise themselves and evade antibodies. The acquired immune system's counterstrategy: so-called antigen-presenting cells, including dendritic cells that latch onto invading bugs and strip them of their chemical camouflage. Thus exposed, the pathogens are prepped for destruction by killer T cells, whose job is to engulf and destroy them. The killer Ts are meanwhile lured to the site of infection in the greatest possible numbers by signaling chemicals known as cytokines, released by the dendritic cells...
...MIDDLE EAST After a Lull, Violence Returns Tentative steps toward ending more than 15 months of bloodshed stumbled when two Islamic militants stormed an Israeli army outpost near the Gaza Strip, breaking a Hamas-declared suspension of violence in Israel. The attackers killed four soldiers, members of a Bedouin Arab battalion, before being shot dead. In retaliation, Israeli bulldozers destroyed 32 houses in the Gaza refugee camp that had been home to the two assailants and ripped up the runway of the Palestinian-controlled international airport...