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...ANTHRAX DOUBLE DUTY Researchers may have uncovered an inventive way of both battling anthrax and detecting its microscopic spores. By studying a virus that can invade and attack the anthrax bacillus, scientists isolated an enzyme, called lysin, that breaks apart the cell's walls, causing it to die. Early work in mice looks promising, though any potential drug based on this discovery would have to be administered immediately after exposure, before the anthrax germ had released its toxins. In addition, scientists have found that lysin could be a useful tool for picking up the presence of even trace amounts...
...civilians but also captured Russians, British and Americans. They were frozen alive to research frostbite. Burned alive to research human combustion. Loaded into vacuum chambers until their bellies ruptured. Hung by their ankles to see how long a person can live upside-down. They were infected with plague, anthrax and cholera and subjected to vivisection without anesthesia. For 13 years the experiments continued, ending with Japan's surrender in 1945. Between 3,000 and 12,000 maruta died. None survived Unit...
Former Army scientist Steven Hatfill landed once again at the center of the FBI's 10-month anthrax investigation last week, stirring debate within the agency. Hatfill--whom the FBI has called a "person of interest" in the probe, along with about 25 other scientists--held a press conference in which he vehemently denied any role in mailing the anthrax-laced letters that killed five last fall. But days later, FBI agents and Princeton police were flashing Hatfill's photo to merchants in Princeton, N.J., where anthrax spores turned up on a mailbox near Princeton University. The sleuthing is controversial...
...seats reserved for the military and police, and rejected a call by two parties to introduce Islamic law. Increasing democratization has been contentious. Last month, President Megawati Sukarnoputri questioned whether Indonesians were politically mature enough to elect their leaders directly. U.S. Rogue Mail Postal inspectors investigating the anthrax mailings linked to five deaths last fall inched closer to a solution to the mystery. They found a mailbox in Princeton, New Jersey that tested positive for traces of the bacteria. U.S. Postal Service spokesman Dan Mihalko said the box had been sent to an army facility in Maryland for analysis...
...still ranging far and wide and that the FBI has not ruled out a foreign connection. The charred remains thought to belong to hijackers from United Flight 93, which crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, and American Airlines Flight 77, which smashed into the Pentagon, were examined for anthrax residue. None was found. All told, more than 5,000 interviews have been conducted and 1,700 subpoenas issued in what FBI officials say is one of the largest operations in the bureau's history. Sources tell TIME that 50 U.S. bioweapons experts have been targeted for the most intense scrutiny...