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...long ago, everyone--even John Kerry's rivals--assumed that after Labor Day the lanky Massachusetts Senator would be cruising at the front of the Democratic pack. He had the war-hero bio and plenty of foreign policy credibility (perfect for post-9/11 politics), plus prodigious fund-raising abilities, a personal fortune and the best presidential hair since J.F.K. But as Kerry officially announces for President this week--a symbolic political rite that glosses over the fact that he has been running flat-out for a year--the question being asked most...
Other companies are working out ways to limit the wave of terrorism that a bio-attack could set in motion. At Los Alamos and at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., scientists have developed an air-quality testing unit the size of an ATM. When installed in subway stations, airports, arenas or convention centers, these devices sample the air and submit it to tests in a self-contained laboratory. Within an hour, they can report the presence of anthrax, smallpox or other pathogens...
...Pentagon fretting over a replacement. The Department of Defense is pondering what some officials think is a radical step: dispatching U.S. Marines--the nation's pre-eminent quick-and-dirty warriors--to Iraq early next year to replace the 101st. "We're short infantry, we're short chem-bio [specialists], we're short military police," says General John Keane, the Army's No. 2 officer. "Clearly, we're stretched...
...original explanation for I Love Lucy's enduring success is just weird: people love it because it is in black and white. "There is something incompatible," Kanfer writes, "about humor and color." (Let's see how Kanfer massages that theory should he ever write Jerry Seinfeld's bio...
These tiny compositions have potential applications in electronics, ultra-sensitive probes and bio-molecular mimicry, which is currently being used to replicate proteins, genes and nerves...