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...VISIT LAST WEEK TO BEIJING, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KRAVCHUK was trying to peddle the 67,000-ton aircraft carrier Varyag, nearing completion in the Ukrainian port of Nikolayev. Selling the carrier may be difficult, though. The Russians, not the Ukrainians, paid for construction of the 922-ft.-long vessel, and can be expected to assert ownership...
Replistatin's potential as a cancer treatment rests in its ability to prevent the formation of blood vessel networks vital to the growth of tumors and lesions, according to a Repligen report...
...caterpillar -- she goes to work with awesome efficiency. Her slender proboscis, consisting of two sharp and sometimes serrated cutting % tools surrounding a pair of tiny tubes, pierces the skin (and, if necessary, the cloth or feathers protecting it) and finds a capillary, bending to slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation. Up the other goes a drop of her victim's blood. In less than a minute, she makes her getaway. She finds a place to rest and digest her vampire's repast, while her victim is left...
...acting as a symbol, a building can resonate with much greater force in the cultural consciousness; it is like an empty vessel that has been filled with a culturally-endowed meaning. During the occupation of Barcelona by the Bourbons in the eighteenth century, for example, the construction of the Ciutadella (the Citadel of Barcelona) became a hated symbol of Bourbon tyranny...
...Crowe, who will testify before the House Armed Services Committee next week, has already torpedoed a major contention in the conspiracy case having to do with a secret war in which the U.S. allegedly seized not only the Iranian minelayer Iran Ajr but also "several others," including a second vessel, the Rakish. Photos released at the time by the Pentagon, however, show that the Rakish and the Iran Ajr are actually one and the same. One official says no other ships were captured, casting doubt on the secret-war charge...