Word: breakthroughs
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...Nobody is expecting a breakthrough from Powell's mission. He's being sent mostly because not sending him may carry an even higher cost. Still, the President's comments and the Secretary of State's mission suggests the past week's events have stung Washington into assuming greater responsibility for the fate of the Middle East - even against its better political judgment...
...Israelis and Palestinians ever learn to live together? Just as the two parties edged toward a cease-fire last week, three Palestinian suicide bombings in three days put that tentative progress in peril. While the bodies pile up and the diplomats scramble to find a breakthrough, it is people like the Simons and the Zeidans who have to make the most difficult choices. If the initiative is to be taken away from zealots on both sides, politicians will need a shove from those with the greatest stake in achieving a placid life. The Simons and the Zeidans ache for normality...
ANGOLA Rebels Back Peace Senior members of the UNITA rebel movement endorsed ongoing cease-fire talks with the government, strengthening hopes of a political breakthrough to end the 27-year civil war. unita loyalists in the Angolan parliament approved negotiations led by the group's secretary-general in the eastern city of Leuna, and the group's representatives in Europe issued a supporting statement. The country's continuing insecurity was highlighted by a suspected rebel attack near the coastal city of Benguela that killed 15 people...
CANCER BUSTER Just last year the breakthrough drug Gleevec looked so promising for treating a rare form of cancer called chronic myeloid leukemia that it received FDA approval in a record 2 1/2 months. Now it seems Gleevec may be even more effective than first thought. A study shows that after two years on the drug, 95% of patients are still alive, with 40% in complete remission. Treatment isn't cheap (cost: $2,400 a month), and the pills may have to be taken for life. But we haven't heard the last of Gleevec. It's being tested...
...they divide the Caspian's wild sturgeon with Iran are Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. "In a region where fish stocks were once a carefully guarded state secret, and where there is still no comprehensive political agreement over how to share the Caspian Sea and its resources, this breakthrough on sturgeon management marks a dramatic step toward transparency and cooperation," says Jim Armstrong, deputy secretary-general of CITES. Under the unified system, the region's governments can demonstrate that "sturgeon numbers are indeed stable or, in some cases, increasing," says Willem Wijnstekers, the agency's chief. And, he adds...