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...injection site and chickenpox-like rashes, but there were no long-lasting or serious adverse effects. The experimental vaccine was developed from a strain of varicella vi rus isolated in 1974 in Japan by Dr. Michiaki Takahashi. Researchers used a live but weakened form of the virus to trigger the body's immunological system into producing antibodies against the disease. The idea, explains Weibel, is "to induce immunity without inducing clinical disease...
...superpowers hold pistols to each other's heads; they forgo large-scale defenses to make their suicide pact more credible, but they continue to proliferate and refine their offensive weapons. In so doing they put their arsenals on hair trigger; the danger grows that in a crisis or an accident, one or both fingers could twitch...
...lateness of the awards is understandable. After all, Leonard has never featured blue-jawed heroes, hair-trigger comebacks and estrous groupies. Instead he has specialized in strangely principled con men, jailbirds and hustlers who need to score a few bucks or a few points without committing Murder One in the process. The label "glamorous" adheres to none of them...
...Government as well, by calling for an all-out program, along the lines of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb, to build a defense system in space. He envisioned a network of orbiting sensors that would detect a Soviet attack as soon as it was launched, then trigger giant remote-control ray guns that would destroy attacking rockets or their warheads before they could do any damage...
...issue will figure in the presidential campaign, Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale last week denounced the plan as "dangerously destabilizing" and called for a freeze on military uses of space. The Democrats believe that the President's embrace of antimissile weapons will fan fears that he is a trigger-happy nucl ear cowboy...