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She defends the retracted CNN story on nerve gas used against American defectors in Vietnam as "solid with the facts," and alleges that she is the victim of a dark CNN public relations conspiracy.
An article defends Chai Ling, who led the Tiananmen Square protests and now runs an American Internet start-up, from charges of selling out and, more gravely, of guiding the protests with naive extremism.
The Enquirer itself concludes--19 paragraphs into its story--that "while her story may have the appearance of truth, it's false--although [she] vehemently defends it."
In Drosophila , the prototypic homolog of the mammalian Toll-like receptors (Toll) defends against fungal infection [ 18], whereas the protein 18-wheeler defends against bacterial infection [ 19].
Deacon Don Thomas of the Lily of the Valley Church of God in Christ in Fairbanks, Alaska, defends what he does to reach the community: "Yeah, we want to compel people to come to Christ, but at the same time we don't want to intrude on people.