Apoptotic cells characteristically expose 'eat me' signal(s) to macrophages (Nagata et al., 2010; Ravichandran, 2011), and one of the primary 'eat me' signals is phosphatidylserine (PtdSer).
The impression given in "Divided and Conquered" (June 12), on the two major conservatives in the recently concluded New Jersey Republican gubernatorial primary -- me and Bret Schundler -- is that conservatism was a loser in the election.
"What the Washington primary tells me," said David Olsen, a political science professor at the University of Washington, "is that Bush has done what he needed to firm up his base, but the cost may be the election in November.
Mark Jones, a political-science professor at Rice University who's been covering the primary, told me, "Keep in mind, Clinton won the district by 1.4percentnt, but generic Republican judicial candidates won by twelve and sixteen per cent.
Linnea: When I was in primary school, me and my friends were on a climbing pole playing a game where the winner was the one who lasted the longest on the pole without sliding down.
Tancredo, who recently called for a Republican to depose Coffman in a primary, told me he'd like the current Republican gubernatorial candidates to "be a little louder" on the issues, including his signature issue, immigration.
All this said, this privacy debate definitely applies to the primaries for me.
If this posture helps Rubio in the primaries, sign me up.
Steve McMahon, a longtime Democratic media consultant who worked for Howard Dean during the primaries, told me, "If you want to drop something, dropping it in The Note can be as good as dropping it in the New York Times".
Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who helped run Hillary Clinton's campaign at the end of the 2008 primaries, told me, "Reagan had a kind of very robust narrative with real explanatory power for people.
