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Responding to intense criticism, the CDC is looking into forming external peer review panels to re-examine select-agent regulations and lab-safety procedures. The agency may also modify reporting requirements - possibly allowing some measure of anonymity, for example, to minimize disincentives for revealing accidents. "This is a relatively young program [which] is providing much improved oversight, but clearly there is more than we can do," says Richard Besser, director for the CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, who defends the recent lab expansion in the U.S., saying it will lead to better diagnostics and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are Our Bio-Labs? | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...principle of opening a channel to deliver the agent is a new and very promising development,” said Igor Kissin, professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School...

Author: By Christina G. Vangelakos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Pepper Chemical Also Helps Numb Pain | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...headquarters, Agent Ronald Fleury is on the phone with a friend in Riyadh when the explosions occur, killing the buddy. So this time (like every time) it's personal. And after kissing his kids goodbye, Fleury is of to Riyadh. To solve the case, he brings along a crack trio that updates the multi-ethnic squads found in old World War II movies, and is guaranteed to piss off the religiously and socially conservative Saudis. Along with the black guy, there's the older man (Chris Cooper) who swears a lot; the woman doctor (Jennifer Garner) who insists on wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Win the War on Terror! | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

...more than one real estate agent say, ‘We didn’t think that undergraduates were allowed to live off-campus,’” says Greg R. Scruggs ’08. He considers himself extremely normal for wanting to live outside of a House. “Living in a dorm—it’s kind of juvenile after twenty,” he says...

Author: By Guillian H. Helm, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Outside the Bubble, Out of the Loop | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...desperately needing the $200 fee, signs on to escort the captured outlaw through hard country in order to catch the 3:10 to Yuma where a courthouse, a trial and, doubtless, a necktie party await Ben, we know where our moral interest is supposed to lie. But the road agent is a really cute and seductive guy, steadily luring Dan into reluctantly bonding with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perfect Time for 3:10 to Yuma | 9/7/2007 | See Source »

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