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BIOTERRORISM This is the area where our defenses most need a quick fix. Smallpox vaccines haven't improved much since the 1960s. Until 9/11, few drug companies felt the economic impetus to develop costly antidotes to all-but-conquered infections and ailments. Viagra was a sexier sell. Smallpox was considered to be a "market you hope will never exist," says Alan Goldhammer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America...
Hughes is remembered today as the billionaire bohemian who built that Edsel of airplanes, the Spruce Goose, and spent the late 1960s as the reclusive, emaciated owner of a slew of Las Vegas hotels and casinos. His death in 1976, as a reader wrote to TIME, "disproved the saying that 'you can never be too rich or too thin...
...latent social turmoil of the 1960s was soon to erupt on college campuses across the nation—and Harvard was no exception. As the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war gathered momentum, Ford found himself at the helm of a faculty beset by social and political strife...
...time he was in University Hall, it’s clear that he had a wonderful clarity about—and concern for—the undergraduate experience,” said former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. “The troubles of the late 1960s were testing—and sometimes distressing—for everyone in the Harvard administration, and we can only be grateful that Franklin Ford generously gave us more than two decades after that, as a distinguished historian and teacher in the College...
...left on the seabed. That is the general consensus. "It has been there for so long that it poses the least hazard where it is," says biologist Henning Karup of Denmark's Environmental Protection Agency. Only a few fishermen have been treated for gas-related injuries since the 1960s, and the long-term environmental impact is unclear...