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...Afghanistan is going well. The Rockaway plane crash is looking like an ordinary accident. And there are no new anthrax victims. Seems like a good time to enjoy a breather, a holiday from seriousness, the seriousness we woke up to on Sept. 11. Hence the righteous fulmination from critics left and right against measures the Bush Administration has put in place to detain, question and try suspected terrorists...
...Nose for Anthrax...
...started to rot. It can also identify contaminants in perfumes or chemicals. But following the Sept. 11 attacks, the $7,995 Cyranose may have a new application. Last week Cyrano Sciences began conducting tests to see whether the Nose can detect the odor of the bacterium that causes anthrax...
...sharing the stores with a slew of new ones sporting patriotic red, white and blue. Hallmark, which had only a few days after Sept. 11 to turn out a new patriotic line, reports that those cards are the best-selling ones on its website. And despite fears that anthrax would dissuade people from spreading cheer through the mail this year, Hallmark says its card sales are up 5% from the same period last year...
...benefits of Langlois' Autonomous Pathogen Detection System are obvious. Instead of waiting for someone to come down with anthrax or smallpox--or running a blood test on folks who think they might be infected--the APDS might give public-safety officials sufficient warning to evacuate the area before anyone got exposed. In a world where bioterrorism is no longer unthinkable, the APDS could serve as the first line of defense...