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...these bio-tipped missiles did, in fact exist, then the failure to find them must surely rank as the most frightening screw-up of the war. If they're still out there, then the 150,000 U.S. personnel currently in Iraq are presumably in considerable danger, and the likelihood of bio-weapons finding their way into terrorist hands would have increased rather than decreased as a result of Saddam's ouster. Finding them would also presumably be the first and absolute priority of the coalition forces, which it doesn't exactly seem to be. That's if they're still...
Harold E. Varmus, former director of the National Institute of Health, said that there were other similar efforts, including Stanford’s “Bio-X” interdisciplinary science center, but that the Broad collaboration was a powerful...
...Action! (Random House; 388 pages) by Robert Cort explore the less camera-ready aspects of the film industry, and the authors know whereof they speak. Grazer wrote the screenplay for Stepmom and is married to Brian Grazer, the Academy Award--winning producer of A Beautiful Mind. Cort's bio boasts that he has produced a whopping 52 films, including, alas, Three Men and a Baby and Jumanji. Despite their shared insider status, the two have very different takes on their hometown...
Like many inside and outside the University, Grogan sees academic institutions as draws for bio-tech and engineering firms—and the talent they attract—to come to Boston and stay or the long term...
Last year, NIH hosted the first global biosecurity conference in Las Vegas, bringing together researchers, physicians, and biohazard “first responders,” and this October, HMS and the School of Public Health will collaborate for a second Bio-Security conference in Washington...