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...carnage on that leafy street was another link in a chain of bloody attacks that has swept over Egypt for the past 19 months. A shadowy coalition of Islamic fundamentalist groups has proved its willingness to use any means, no matter how lethal, to overthrow the secular government of President Hosni Mubarak, a key ally of the U.S. In response, the Cairo government and its security forces have shown they will raid, arrest and hang as many militants as they think it will take to stamp out the insurrection...
...also the worst of times. For most of the companies that make those computers, that market has suddenly become a lethal place. Once successful companies such as IBM, Compaq, Dell and Apple are floundering; profits are plunging, margins squeezed. Last month one of the personal-computer industry's leading lights -- the pioneering Tandy Corp. -- became a prominent casualty. Faced with $52 million in losses in the past year and an even bloodier future, Tandy decided to abandon the PC business, which accounted for 10% of its sales last year. The company simply could not survive the intense price competition...
...disappeared, replaced by sitcoms, magazine shows and "soft" dramas like L.A. Law and Northern Exposure. Violence is largely confined to a few reality shows, Cops, America's Most Wanted, and true-crime TV movies -- which are abundant but whose violence looks positively prim beside the brutality of any Lethal Weapon sequel or Schwarzenegger extravaganza...
...druthers, these places wouldn't even exist," says Free Willy's executive producer, Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Radio Flyer). "There are those who'll argue the aquatic parks are like zoos, that they teach children and others about animals. But I'm against zoos too." Donner's wife, Lauren Shuler-Donner, who co-produced the movie, says, "We didn't set out to make a movie condemning aquatic parks. We set out to make a movie about a boy and a whale and family and friendship and freedom. But personally, I've never liked zoos, seaquariums or even birds...
...combination of the antibody, acting as a guidance system that homes in on tumor cells, and doxorubicin, as the lethal payload, knocked out many kinds of advanced cancer in mice, including colon, lung and breast tumors that had spread to other organs. In earlier animal experiments, researchers were able to cure only those cancers that had not been growing very long or that had not metastasized. "One of the problems that have held back the field for a long time is that we were never sure that well-established solid tumors could be eliminated," says Dr. David Scheinberg, chief...