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...they have discovered a single biochemical switch that triggers the growth of blood vessels in almost all tumors in laboratory animals. By knocking out the switch with two proteins that they have developed, the researchers caused the blood vessels to dissolve. Deprived of their food supply, the tumors quickly shrank and, in some cases, disappeared entirely...
While the worldwide arms market shrank to $31.9 billion last year -- less than half of 1988's $67.9 billion -- the U.S. share has skyrocketed. Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in late 1989, U.S. overseas weapons sales have totaled $82.4 billion, far ahead of the $66.8 billion in sales racked up by the rest of the world's nations combined. U.S. arms-transfer agreements in 1993 totaled $22.3 billion, eclipsing second-place Russia's $2.8 billion and Britain's $2.3 billion third-place finish. The Pentagon sponsored weapons sales to 86 nations; furthermore, Washington approved the shipment...
Predictably, the U.S. weapons-market share increase has come at the expense of its competitors. Between the four-year periods of 1986-89 and 1990-93, the value of Britain's exports shrank 76%, while Russian and Chinese exports fell 68%. But over the same time span, the value of U.S. contracts climbed 134%, according to recent calculations by Richard Grimmett, a Library of Congress expert on the arms trade...
...Washington team struggled, Clinton took a positive message to the heartland. Campaigning in Cleveland, Ohio, he announced today that the fiscal '94 federal budget deficit shrank to $203 billion -- much lower than the $220 billion forecast by Wall Street analysts -- and predicted it would fall again in 1995. Clinton crowed about the fact that the deficit is down for two years in a row for the first time in two decades and said a further decline next year would mark the first three-year string of decreases since Harry Truman. He also attacked Gingrich's "Contract With America" -- a policy...
...Americans by disputing strategy. So the British agreed to the invasion of Europe as something they intended to do -- only not right away. With searing memories of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and of horrifying losses at the Somme and Passchendaele in World War I, the British shrank from binding themselves to another all-out effort on the European mainland. They much preferred to attack the Germans around the periphery -- in the Mediterranean and southern Europe...