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...formation of blood vessels in a tumor through angiogenesis is another promising target for an anticancer drug -- because the process is so rare in normal cells. Clinical trials have begun on several compounds that interfere with angiogenesis. One such compound comes from a fungus that was accidentally discovered in 1989 when it contaminated cultures of endothelial cells in Judah Folkman's Harvard laboratory, dramatically curtailing their growth. This drug, says Folkman, is aimed not at curing cancer but at prolonging the period of time colonies of tumor cellsmissed by conventional therapy remain in place without spreading. "Suppose we prolong this...
...there is a lesson to be learned from what occurred in a compound the Cowboys call Valley Ranch -- which, naturally, is neither a ranch nor in a valley -- it is not that football has at last been put into proper perspective in Texas. That will not happen in anyone's lifetime. Rather, it is that old- fashioned hubris, envy and ego are as much a part of running a professional football team as calling draw plays on third down and getting dunked with Gatorade...
...Washington, Attorney General Janet Reno, who ordered the final, fatal push on the compound on April 19, repeated the prosecution's interpretation. "The findings that these deaths ((of the four agents)) were not justified makes clear that the government had a responsibility to act," she said. The plans for the February attack were deficient, however, as the government has admitted. In September, the Treasury Department published a scathing report on the raid that described faulty planning, fouled-up communications and, worst of all, a fatal misjudgment by commanders of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who decided...
...jury to decide they had been involved in an agreement or a plan to ambush the agents. Calling more than 120 witnesses, including ATF agents, Texas Rangers and gun dealers, prosecutors tried to prove the 10 men and one woman on trial -- three of whom were away from the compound on the day of the shooting -- knew in advance of the impending ATF raid and were bent on killing federal officers...
...federal jury in Texas acquitted 11 members of the Branch Davidian religious cult of murder and conspiracy to murder, convicting five of voluntary manslaughter and two on weapons charges. The case grew out of last year's raid on the cult's compound, which left four federal agents dead...