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...headlines could cure deadly diseases, then everyone would have rejoiced last week. Across the U.S., newspapers heralded the development by scientists from Bristol-Myers Squibb of a "smart bomb," or "magic bullet," against cancer. The weapon, a type of protein called a monoclonal antibody combined with an anticancer drug, has wiped out a wide variety of tumors in laboratory mice...
Kleinfelder has not returned telephone calls to her home and Harvard office. She spends much of her summer traveling and helping to run lacrosse camps at colleges and high schools around the country. In keeping Kleinfelder, Harvard's athletic department appears to have dodged a bullet. The loss of Kleinfelder would have dealt a significant blow to the lacrosse program, which won the national championship...
...performance won her the lasting loyalty of her own department. "She stood up and took a bullet for us," a veteran FBI agent says. But Reno may pay a political price. Much was made at the time of the contrast between her mea culpa and that of President Clinton, who vanished for hours before surfacing to claim responsibility. That contrast, which owes as much to Clinton's instincts as to hers, could strain the relationship between Reno and her boss. As supportive as he has been, and as grateful for having at least one folk hero in his Cabinet, Clinton...
Leaving the area with these pictures, Nachtwey drove southwest and reached Vitez six hours later. Suddenly, machine guns opened fire from both sides of the road. Nachtwey floored the gas pedal and drove through a solid kilometer of gunfire. Miraculously, only one bullet penetrated the car, hitting the passenger-seat headrest. He learned later that the gunners were neither Serbs nor Muslims, but Croats...
Take the coroner's autopsy. Dr. Thomas Noguchi testified that Kennedy had been killed by a bullet fired no more than three inches from the back of his head. Sirhan, according to many witnesses, was at least three feet in front of the Senator when he shot all eight bullets from his .22-cal. pistol. What's more, FBI investigators found evidence -- from tiles and door jambs destroyed by the L.A.P.D. shortly after the trial -- that 12 or 13 bullets had been fired in the pantry. According to a weapons expert for the L.A.P.D., DeWayne Wolfer, the bullets that killed...