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...congressional panel's recommendation that the military suspend its controversial anthrax vaccination program will surely spell ongoing headaches for the military's top brass. After a mounting chorus of complaints from soldiers, the House Government Reform national security subcommittee on Thursday released a report urging that the inoculation of 2.4 million military personnel be halted until the procedure is further tested. Almost 400,000 troops have so far been inoculated, with at least 400 complaints of side effects, ranging from dizziness to severe thyroid problems...
...city, welding manholes shut and locking postal boxes in the area surrounding Times Square. The city will saturate the area with an 8,000-strong army of police officers and a fleet of surveillance helicopters on New Year's Eve. Furthermore, area hospitals are hoarding antibiotics to treat anthrax, and are training doctors and nurses to treat victims of chemical explosions...
This year's festivities do not mark any real turning point in world history. They are just an excuse for some folks to sell more alcohol, for others to drink more alcohol, and for still others to see if Anthrax really works as well as advertised. In fact, it's not even the year 2000. Our western calendar was concocted out of thin air by Dionysius Exiguus, a sixth-century Scythian monk, whose love of Jesus was eclipsed only by his inability to count accurately. Dionysius tried to estimate the date of his Savior's birth, and then tried...
...lethal human doses--radiation so strong it cracks glass. Scientists have found "dead" radiodurans spores in Antarctica that have baked in UV light for 100 years. Yet when placed in a nutrient bath, the bug's DNA reassembles itself and proliferates. If radiodurans genes could be put into anthrax, they might produce an anthrax that's virtually impossible to kill. From a bioweaponeer's point of view, the future is bright...
...past the present and vice versa; they turn rock into hip-hop and back again, throwing everything into the mix, making boundaries illusory. Lethal, for example, has 60,000 LPs in his collection, from different decades and different genres. DJ Skribble, who has performed with the hard-rock band Anthrax and who is the co-host of mtv's Global Groove dance show, says, "People are now into groups and artists and not specific genres of music. Deejays are making music less segregated." Not to mention giving hope to people who can't play guitar...