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...most promising new therapies is a compound called Fampridine-SR (4-AP), now beginning final phases of testing in human patients. If okayed by the Food and Drug Administration, 4-AP will become the first available treatment that can actually restore function in those with spinal-cord injuries; as many as 30% of test subjects who have taken the nerve enhancer have experienced improved movement and feeling in their limbs. Meanwhile, dozens of other compounds, including various nerve-growth factors, have restored muscle activity in paralyzed animals...
...northern town of Umm al-Fahm. The next day a man exploded his payload on a Tel Aviv bus, killing six people and wounding more than 50. Hours later, Israeli troops blasted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah headquarters. The army destroyed nearly every building in the sprawling compound in an effort to smoke out about 20 wanted militants who are holed up inside with Arafat and his aides. Curfews were tightened in Ramallah and other West Bank towns. MEANWHILE Curse Of The Mummy What lies at the dark heart of the Pyramid of Khufu? National Geographic TV broadcast live...
...Americans represent the best hope for now, just as the Taliban did when they wrested control of most of the country from feuding warlords who had delivered only chaos. In the village of Babar Koli, a 22-year-old says he was a guard at Mullah Omar's Kandahar compound. The young man, who would not give his name, says he would not fight again if the mullah himself asked him. He instead wants to continue his religious studies in Kandahar...
...Karzai three weeks ago by firing on his car in Kandahar was a Taliban soldier who had been released from the Sheberghan prison camp two months earlier. According to some reports, the man changed his name from Abdul Razaq to Abdul Rahman in order to get hired as a compound guard for the Kandahar governor, who was with Karzai when Rahman struck. Government authorities suspect Rahman, 22, who was shot dead by U.S. special forces guarding Karzai, was part of a larger Taliban conspiracy, and are holding his entire guard unit while they search for concrete proof. Neighbors...
...gunman stood sentry near the gates of the compound, waiting for an opening as the departing motorcade approached. Inside a luxury suv was Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, who had come to Kandahar to attend his brother's wedding. His security detail, a clutch of U.S. commandos, rode in a separate vehicle. Karzai was on his way out of the compound of Gul Agha Sherzai, Kandahar's provincial governor, who sat beside him in the car, when he was approached by an Afghan youth hoping to meet the President. A leader known for his affability, Karzai lowered the window...