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...team of 20 scientists is building a robot less than 1 mm (0.045 in.) in diameter that could travel through veins and inside organs, locating and treating diseased tissue. The group hopes to build a prototype within three years for testing on a horse, but the researchers first must obtain gears, screws and other parts 1,000 times smaller than the tiniest available today...
...leaked out this summer that Iraqi archaeologists had discovered a major find at the site, scientists around the world were immediately intrigued. The reports told of remarkable archaeological treasures, including royal tombs heaped with gold jewelry of exquisite quality. But reliable information about the site was virtually impossible to obtain. The Iraqis refused to grant visas to the press or let any outsiders photograph the jewelry...
Police are also likely to focus on the widespread use of fake ID's to obtain alcohol, Johnson says...
...about the paralysis. | Conservative analyst Kevin Phillips described the problem two weeks ago in the Washington Post as "a frightening inability to define and debate America's emerging problems." Last week's 190-point stock market tumble was the immediate result of economic developments, namely UAL's failure to obtain financing for its leveraged buyout. But Washington's glaring inability to control spending hardly inspires the confidence that markets need...
...life groups that the Administration is not backing away from them, the Justice Department last week filed a brief in one of the three abortion cases facing the Supreme Court this term. It calls for the court to uphold a Minnesota law that would require a teenage girl to obtain the permission of both parents before having an abortion -- even if they have never lived together...