Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NOVIYE ATAGI, Chechnya: The Red Cross is evacuating its personnel and suspending operations in Chechnya after six of its delegates were shot as they slept in the Noviye Atagi Red Cross hospital compound early Tuesday morning. Five doctors and a maintenance worker died while another was seriously wounded in the execution-style shooting, the worst single attack on Red Cross workers in its 133-year history. "The people who did it knew exactly what they were doing." said Red Cross representative Kim Gordon-Bates. "Nothing was stolen." Although Russian Interior Ministry troops have begun an investigation, there is no guarantee...
...past, efforts to discover drugs for use in the brain have been governed by the assumption that any such chemical compound needed to contain a nitrogen atom. As a result, all current drugs which target the brain have nitrogen atoms...
...tycoon Juan Garcia Abrego. And she has revitalized Justice's antitrust, civil rights and environment divisions. But she has also failed to harness her popularity to win important legislative battles, such as expanding the FBI's wiretap authority. Her darkest day remains the deadly assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas; its devastating effect on the morale of the FBI continues to haunt the agency...
...hormone derived from the urine of pregnant women may lead to a promising new treatment for KAPOSI'S SARCOMA, a type of skin cancer that often strikes people with aids. In a small clinical trial, injections with the compound completely cleared the lesions in 10 of 12 patients...
...Texas in 1980, Stockman unseated 42-year incumbent Jack Brooks in 1994 with a shrewd one-issue campaign--opposing gun control--that resonated with the district's large gun-owning population. In Congress Stockman has drawn fire for such positions as calling the Waco raid on the Branch Davidian compound a ploy by federal agencies to build support for the assault-weapons...