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Knut Kloster Jr., the former chairman of the Norwegian Cruise and Royal Viking lines, plans to top even that by launching a ship that will be a permanent home for its passengers. The globe-trotting vessel, called World of ResidenSea, will have 286 condominiums when completed in early 2001. Kloster has so far sold 65 units, which go for as much as $6.6 million. And for those who can't get enough Titanic, a U.S.-Swiss partnership plans to build a $500 million replica that will take its maiden voyage on the 90th anniversary of the Titanic...
...JUST FOR BABIES Ultrasound, most commonly used to monitor a growing fetus, is as effective as the routine MRI in detecting blood-vessel blockages after a heart attack...
...Today, they could be forgiven for taking a celebratory nip: In what might have been a rerun of last June's disastrous collision, the autopilot docking mechanism aboard a supply ship again failed -- but this time, Mir's commander managed to use the manual controls to safely dock the vessel. And inside the cargo vessel, for the cosmonaut who has everything, a new set of wrenches. Now they can fix that damn door...
...conventional belief at the time was thattumors did not need blood vessels to grow. Folkmanpursued his convictions that cancer cellsspecifically induce blood vessel growth necessaryfor their own growth...
...vessel has outlived its stay by a good 14 days and poses some philosophical questions to us. Is Harvard just full of prudes? Unlikely. We know just how many people hooked up last week. Are people scared of being seen grabbing a rubber? Perhaps. How many readers have actually told their pharmacist they wanted the Trojans in the back...