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...former senior CIA official recalls that in early 1992 "alarm bells started ringing at the agency." Analysts feared that Libya intended the plant to have the same capacity as the original Rabta facility, which over two years produced about 100 tons of mustard gas and nerve agents. Unless destroyed, the experts concluded, the new factory could keep Gaddafi's favorite terrorists well stocked with chemical poisons for decades...
...public was thus doubly stunned last week when a government-appointed scientific commission indicated just the opposite. The commission had discovered a new strain of a deadly disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and suggested that the likely cause for its spread was BSE. The announcement sent a wave of alarm across Europe. By week's end all but two European Union countries had banned British beef, and nations as far away as New Zealand and Singapore had done the same, cutting off trade that earns Britain $780 million a year. The U.S. has not permitted the import of British beef...
...five-alarm fire blazed through a Fresh Pond Parkway auto repair shop yesterday and threatened to consume a nearby gas station and an elementary school...
Although several five-alarm fires are normal for one year in Cambridge, Reardon said he cannot remember another this year...
Students face many choices in college from among the myriad of issues interwoven in the fabric of youth culture. While these issues are not faced by the majority of students, the minority who do experience them often raise alarm among roommates, family, faculty, and administration. In many ways the success of those responsible for their care should be measured by the extent to which the profile of these students can be transformed into a more healthy one. Certainly, their problems reveal the impact of modernity with its complex messages about uncertainty and doubt: the surviving elements from the drug counterculture...