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Wednesday, 12:40 p.m., the village of Junik. Holbrooke's convoy makes an unplanned stop after passing through Serb security forces guarding a nearby Serb refugee camp. Friendly Kosovar guides usher the diplomats through alleys to a walled compound, where they take off their shoes to enter a Muslim home. Holbrooke, his jacket off and his tie loosened, is introduced to Gani Shehu, 31, who identifies himself as Rugova's party leader in the village. K.L.A. "morale officer" Lum Haxhiu, 40, fondles a European assault rifle as he tells Holbrooke he was formerly a poet in Denmark. Outside, a bearded...
Washington is threatening to get out the welding torch after its Belarus ambassador, Daniel Speckhard, yesterday found the gates to his residence welded shut. The government of President Alexander Lukashenko -- a Soviet-era hardliner -- has warned diplomats from 22 countries to leave their residential compound, insisting that it needed repairs. The U.S. denounced the action as a violation of diplomatic conventions, and warned of unspecified retaliation. "We would certainly have options of our own in the welding area," State Department spokesman James Rubin joked...
...first, he was almost too successful. Everywhere he looked--from cartilage to fungi to the notorious sedative thalidomide--Folkman found one compound after another that exhibited anti-angiogenic properties. But none of them was as effective as he wanted it to be. Then he remembered something that surgeons had often observed: that taking out one big tumor from a patient seems to trigger the growth of lots of smaller ones. Could it be that tumors secrete a substance that inhibits the growth of rival tumors' blood vessels...
...them, Dr. Michael O'Reilly, agreed to take on the project. Together he and Folkman eventually determined that various segments of a naturally occurring protein called plasminogen seemed to do the trick. They called the collection of molecular fragments angiostatin and found that each version of the compound differed slightly in its ability to stop a tumor from growing...
These gases then built up inside the compound'sglass container, Carter said...