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...Munich Olympics, Mossad hit squads tracked down in Europe and Lebanon members of the Black September terrorist group responsible. But they also mistook a Moroccan waiter for the terrorist group's kingpin and assassinated him in Norway in 1973. Last week Prime Minister Barak, under pressure to halt the violence before Israel's Feb. 6 elections, defended the current hits in a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Committee members say Barak told them, "We're at war. A state facing a terrorist threat has to wage a struggle." Palestinian Cabinet minister Hassan Assfour calls...
VERTEPORFIN Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) afflicts 13 million Americans and in its most severe form, characterized by abnormal growth of blood vessels in the retina, can cause vision loss or blindness. The first treatment approved for AMD, verteporfin, can slow or halt the most severe form of the disease. The drug is a photosensitive dye that is activated by a low-intensity laser and triggers a chemical reaction that destroys the troublesome vessels...
...since I was 11. But I never really skated. My only skills were to stop and go, though I'll admit fences and snowbanks always did the lion's share of the stopping work. So I felt oddly homesick on the first lesson when everyone came to a crashing halt by slamming into the wall. (Stopping wasn't covered until lesson...
...Bernard Shaw to Lion Feuchtwanger returned from Moscow with soothing tales of Stalin justice in the workers' paradise. Thus the U.S.S.R. kept rolling along its road to hell. Now, Russia risks sliding the same way once again. Maybe it is too late for the exhausted and bewildered nation to halt the slide. Arresting Gusinsky is easier. But should Spain extradite Gusinsky to Moscow, the West might be making the same mistake it did in the 1930s...
Within 24 hours, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in with a bitterly divided blockbuster of its own: a 5-4 order directing the Florida canvassing boards to halt the recounts. Once again, the reaction was divided and partisan, but flipped in a fun-house mirror. This time, it was the Bush camp's James Baker saying it was "very, very gratifying" that the U.S. Supreme Court had "indicated a willingness and an interest in hearing this very, very important case." And it was the Gore campaign charging that a court was trying to hijack the will of the people...