Word: anthrax
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...programmers are correct, the state of the American psyche is such that suicide attacks and anthrax anxiety have made the cold war seem cozy. TV-series reunion specials last season drew big ratings, attributed to viewers' desire to escape into the past after Sept. 11. The networks are looking to capitalize on this trend with new comedies and dramas that look back to the Kennedy and Reagan eras. On NBC's drama American Dreams (Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.), set in 1963 Philadelphia, 15-year-old Meg Pryor (Brittany Snow) achieves her dream of dancing on American Bandstand. Fox's Oliver...
...dozens of other new products made and enhanced through nanotechnology. To be sure, most nanotech companies are still investing more in R. and D. than they are collecting in revenue. But many commercial applications are in advanced stages of development or already on sale: handheld devices that can sense anthrax spores, hand cream that can protect us from them and computer chips that are faster, cheaper and cooler (we're talking temperature here, not hipness) and retain data even when the power is shut off. Says Richard Smalley, a Rice University professor and Nobel-prizewinning chemist: "We are only beginning...
Baker and his team created a company called NanoBio. An $11 million Pentagon grant allowed the team to develop a cream that can penetrate and kill infectious microbes, everything from the fungus that grows on toenails to flu viruses to anthrax spores. The military version, called NanoDefend, is a liquid designed to decontaminate clothing and surfaces that have come into contact with anthrax, Ebola or smallpox. A creamy gel or goop, called NanoGreen, can be used by the military to decontaminate skin--and may eventually have topical and vaginal applications for consumers, according to NanoBio CEO Ted Annis. The firm...
...have fermentation equipment at animal-feed facilities near Baghdad and the ability to convert workaday centrifuges into Cuisinarts for whizzing up lethal agents. But weaponizing most pathogens so that airborne bombs can spray them effectively over large areas remains a challenge for Saddam's engineers. Nonetheless, a gram of anthrax could serve as a poor man's suitcase bomb: that's 1 trillion spores, enough for 100 million fatal doses. Hiding, transporting and disseminating that type of poison is relatively easy: no missiles are needed, just a crop duster, backpack sprayer, even a perfume atomizer...
FIRED. STEVEN HATFILL, 48, former Army biodefense scientist under scrutiny by the FBI in connection with anthrax-laced letters that killed five people last fall; from his position as associate director of the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training at Louisiana State University. Hatfill said L.S.U. gave no explanation for the firing, but the dismissal followed a Justice Department request that the school refrain from using Hatfill on any projects funded by Justice; his boss, Stephen L. Guillot, was fired as well. Hatfill has repeatedly maintained his innocence...