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...very difficult to do that, but the point is, when they can knock out a leader, then no other leader will step forward for a while, because they don't want to go through the same thing. If they go after and get a pastor, then other pastors shrink from what they should be doing. It forces Christians back into the church. That's what's going on in America. The world is too bad and I'm going to get inside this building and I'm not going to play in the world. That's not what Christ asked...
...grand plans for treating disease by adding or removing genes taken from bacteria or viruses. Because they were so good at penetrating cells, infectious agents seemed the ideal vehicles for delivering drugs. Some cancer patients were treated with experimentally modified viruses, and a few even saw their tumors shrink. Too often, however, scientists lost control of their microbial partners. "It wasn't possible at the time to engineer them to make them more specific," recalls Russell. "When they did work, there was a price to pay. The tumors were cured, but the patient died...
...wife has left me, and I need to see a shrink," Batchelor says, chuckling. "I laugh about it because, hell, it can't get much worse." --By Amanda Bower/ Copperas Cove
...ARRESTED. YOSHIAKI TSUTSUMI, 70, Japanese property tycoon once regarded as the world's richest man; on suspicion of insider trading and making false financial statements; in Tokyo. Tsutsumi developed a hotel-and-recreation empire out of his family's Seibu Railway business, but saw it shrink during the Japanese recession of the 1990s. Tsutsumi resigned as chairman of Seibu last year, and has admitted to falsifying records, although he and his lawyers have not commented on the case...
...government should represent all of Iraq's people. Its first actions should be to help the Sunnis and to rebuild Fallujah, which was destroyed by U.S. forces. Hospitals, schools, mosques and homes need to be constructed. Tony Passarelli Nottingham, England The Loyal Opposition Columnist Joe Klein's "The Incredible Shrinking Democrats" [Feb. 14] was way off the mark. He criticized congressional Democrats for doing what they've been elected to do - act as an opposition party. The last thing they should do is shrink from the task. Our system of government absolutely requires that there be questioning. Bush does...