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Masic leads Portland against Pacific after 22-point showing

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Portland Pilots (7-15, 1-6 WCC) at Pacific Tigers (6-16, 0-7 WCC) Stockton, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pilots -2.5; over/under is 151.5 BOTTOM LINE: Portland …

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Lupus and other autoimmune diseases strike far more women than men. Now there’s a clue why

WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies — and new research may finally explain why. It’s all about how the body handles females’ extra X chromosome, Stanford University researchers reported Thursday — a finding that could lead to better ways to detect a long …

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