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...hear from them." Like many other wives left behind, she thought about going home to her family while Tracey is away. But she is grateful for what the Army offers to families: the health care, classes and play groups. "I want the kids to have some kind of normal life," she says. "If I changed his environment," she says of 3-year-old D'Artagnan, "he might not think Daddy is coming back." His father was away for a month last fall at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., and D'Artagnan stood at the window every night...
...level wrestlers), but it was his superstar celebrity outside the ring?the magazine covers, the celebrated love affairs, the lurid tabloid details?that humanized the highly traditional sport. "He gave sumo a facelift, a new image," says Akebono, a yokozuna from 1993 to 2001. Sumo wrestlers were just like normal people, he proved, give or take a hundred kilos...
...After thalidomide's catastrophic debut, scientists found that the deformities occurred because the drug prevented the formation of new blood vessels. This, in turn, prevented normal fetal development. Now several British research groups are exploring how thalidomide can be used to stop blood vessels forming in and around tumors. Kill the formation of new vessels, they reason, and you kill the tumor. Recent studies into thalidomide treatment of some of the most intractable cancers - lung and pancreatic cancer and multiple myeloma - show promising results. Thalidomide has "three exciting properties to home in on: it can inhibit tumors directly, activate...
...Agnelli he wants his students to ignore: "Fiat always had an important shield from any competition. Agnelli always made sure he had the support of government forces, regardless of party or ideology. It was a major distortion of Fiat's success, and left the company very, very weak when normal market conditions arrived." The boss nevertheless refused to cede control, fending off takeover bids from Ford Motors and others. Always convinced that his own fortunes and the country's were inextricably linked, Agnelli once noted: "In a country the size of Italy, a company the size of Fiat...
...People [in the Israeli government] have been calling for expulsion for years, but the Israeli government, including [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon, realizes that it would not be acceptable under normal circumstances,” Lockman said. “But in middle of a war in Iraq, especially if they attack Israel, there would be panic and one can imagine all sorts of horrible scenarios. The public could countenance this, or the U.S. could turn a blind...