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...major U.S.-led assault could have disastrous effects inside Afghanistan--and in neighboring Pakistan too. "We have a saying: 'To kill a louse, you needn't set fire to your jacket,'" explains Mohammed Sarwar Khan Kakar, an influential tribal leader and politician in Quetta. "In other words, to catch Osama bin Laden, you don't have to burn all Afghanistan." Despite their grievances against the Taliban's brutish rule, Pashtuns would close ranks and rally to their fellow tribesmen against the U.S. In all likelihood, their forces would swell with zealots crossing over from Pakistan's madrasahs, or Koranic schools...
Hepatitis B is not so easy to catch, but it's still serious. Each year it kills about 5,000 Americans, and many thousands more develop a chronic infection that in some cases will trigger liver cancer or other problems. The hepatitis-B virus is generally transmitted in utero from mother to child, through sexual activity or by close contact with infected blood. A vaccine is available...
GLOWING RESULTS What makes ovarian cancer so deadly is that there's no foolproof way to catch it early. Now researchers have developed an extremely sensitive test that finds tumors when they're still tiny--at least in mice. The animals were injected with a gene that infects only cancer cells and produces a protein that glows under fluorescent light...
...Harvard offense, though, was unfazed, plowing 80 yards on its next possession and capping the drive off with an 6-yard TD catch by sophomore tight end Matt Fratto...
Desperate to catch up in a hurry, the Big Red rarely strayed from its four-receiver set in the second half. Cornell quarterback Ricky Rahne made 53 throws in the game, completing 31 passes to 14 different receivers. But the Big Red struggled to sustain any drive deep into Harvard territory due to the solid play of the Harvard secondary, anchored by senior Willie Alford, who finished with nine tackles...