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Microvilli also becomes shortened and spaces between the cells on the intestinal wall widen...
...allies' simultaneous pursuit of both alternatives leaves them hamstrung. On one hand they fear that a more assertive approach in Bosnia is likely to entangle them more deeply in the war. Yet admitting defeat and pulling out would not only humiliate NATO but also allow the conflict to widen...
...Assistant Attorney General's press conference, Pichardo and Moreno were holding one of their own to defend themselves. Two days later Pichardo said he was formally suing Ruiz Massieu for defamation and slander. Although the three emphatically declared their innocence, the accusations against them seem destined to widen a web of suspicion that expands with each passing month. By last week, Ruiz Massieu's office had charged 15 people in the planning, execution and cover-up of his brother's death. Several are prominent officials, including a P.R.I. congressman who allegedly masterminded the killing and has since disappeared...
...State Department's Latin American bureau. The U.S. will offer to relax immigration standards for Cubans if Fidel Castro will stop the refugee flow. Alarcon, who succeeded in getting a majority of the U.N. General Assembly to condemn the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against his country, wants to widen the talks to include it. The unprecedented meeting, to open at the U.S. mission to the United Nations, could run three days...
...least 13 people have overdosed on heroin in New York City in the past week, prompting a scare -- at least in the media -- that a powerful new form of the drug, "China Cat," is sweeping through the region and could widen its orbit. Police say one sample tested a lethal 94 percent pure, and that the overdoses are a sign of heroin's resurgence in a city where up to half the nation's 600,000 addicts live...