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...Researchers have developed tiny iron coils wrapped in a packaging of fatty molecules that respond to strong magnetic fields by heating up. For whatever reason, cancer cells seem to like these fatty iron coils. Get enough of the coils into a tumor and you might be able to basically cook it to death. The Hopkins authors argue it's worth a shot. Any practical applications would, however, be a long...
...Dutch government last week stepped down over Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk's treatment of controversial politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali. For Prime [an error occurred while processing this directive] Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, it was his second coalition break-up in only four years in office. In May, "Iron Rita" Verdonk took away Hirsi Ali's passport because the Somalian-born woman had entered the country and requested asylum in 1992 under a false name, as she had openly admitted. Many considered Verdonk's handling of the dossier excessively harsh, and under pressure from her government colleagues, Verdonk ruled...
...crucial questions: What does Putin's Russia really want? And will that lead to more conflict with other countries, even another cold war? Repayments Churchill's old saw about russia being a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma continues to have force now that the Iron Curtain has long since been pulled back. Moscow's more muscular approach to the world has roots in its domestic politics. And there, a contradictory welter of good and bad developments contend for dominance, giving the Kremlin cause for both expansive confidence and prickly insecurity. The economy is booming. Since 1999, growth...
DIED. Abbye Stockton, 88, trailblazer for women's weight-lifting known as the First Lady of Iron, who in 1947 organized the first official lifting meet for women; in Santa Monica, Calif. With husband Les, Stockton--nicknamed Pudgy for her childhood baby fat--helped popularize Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the 1930s and '40s with demonstrations that included the human pyramid and the high press, in which she stood on Les' hands while balancing a 100-lb. barbell...
...ignores the recalcitrant ones. "We're building relationships where there are relationships to build," said a White House official. That explains why the President spends so little time in France and Spain--the blue states of Europe--and so much in Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia, countries once behind the Iron Curtain where his odes to democracy are particularly resonant. Beyond just visiting, Bush has been pushing for the eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union, which would give the map of Europe more of a red-state look...