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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...
...took 10 days for Andrea to begin feeding herself again. That was enough improvement for Saeed to discharge her, even though her medications were not yet stabilized. She wanted to go home, where Saeed said she might respond. Says Rusty: "He saw me. He thought I could take care of her. He calculated the risk...
Andrea was still depressed, but Flack discharged her "for insurance reasons," as he wrote on her medical chart. He also thought she might respond better to a female psychiatrist, whom she might find more "nurturing," he told Rusty. Flack had given Andrea a prescription for Zoloft, an antidepressant not unlike her mother's, and Rusty took her back to her parents to recuperate. But she never liked taking pills and faked swallowing them, say Jutta and Rusty. They took turns checking her mouth for hidden meds...
...build fortifications along the border and stockpile rockets and missiles. Of late, Hizballah's charismatic leader, Hasan Nasrallah, had explicitly threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers, and Jerusalem believes it thwarted at least two attempts by his fighters to do just that. Army brass had urged the political leadership to respond with precisely the kind of campaign Olmert has initiated, and Israeli forces practiced just such an operation in a tabletop exercise as recently as two months ago. After the soldiers' kidnapping, Olmert, according to one of his ministers, presented his Cabinet with the military's plans and after a discussion...
...could strike the western coast of Sumatra or Java at any time, and warns that the international community first needs to devote itself to the unglamorous work of building up basic seismology and education within the country, to ensure that every Indonesian in harm's way is ready to respond if the big one hits. "Otherwise, it's a tragedy waiting to happen...