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...much calmer Why We Fight, the improbable hero is Dwight Eisenhower. As Supreme Allied Commander of World War II, he opposed dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima, according to his son John, who is interviewed in the film. In his 1961 farewell address as President, Eisenhower cautioned against the sprawling "military industrial complex." To Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger), Eisenhower was a Cassandra unheeded. In the years since Ike issued his warning, the military budget has grown exponentially, and the complex is ever more complex, embracing the Pentagon, the arms industry, Congress, think tanks and a large slice...
Your photos of the year prove that 2005 was a devastating time for most of the world. My eye was caught by the picture of the London bus mangled by a bomb explosion. Ironically, the remnants of a theater or movie advertisement on the side of the bus read, OUTRIGHT TERROR ... BOLD AND BRILLIANT. EMILIO A. SCHLABITZ Culver City, Calif...
...possibly another round of judging will be exposed as corrupt. But let us enter 2006 with hope and optimism, instead of succumbing to their tempting counterparts, doubt and cynicism. Because, as the Olympics remind us, for every Hitler, there is a Jesse Owens. For every deranged lunatic detonating a bomb in Atlanta, there is a Muhammad Ali gamely lifting a torch to light the symbolic flame. And for every Black September, there’s a Caitlin Cahow, promising a bright February.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu
...spent very little on new biodefense drugs, thanks in part to the long and torturous contracting process. Under BioShield, HHS has paid $5.7 million to buy black raspberry--flavored liquid potassium iodide, a child's version of a pill intended to protect against radioactive iodide in a dirty bomb. The agency is also spending $2.2 million on experimental anthrax treatments (although that money is not coming from the BioShield fund), and a contract for a new smallpox vaccine is expected in 2006. But more than a year into the program, drug companies still complain that they don't have...
...build an aircraft carrier without a contract, but they're expecting pharmaceutical companies to develop these drugs without contracts," says Richard Hollis, CEO of Hollis-Eden, a San Diego biotech hoping to sell the government a treatment for acute radiation syndrome (a blood sickness caused by a dirty bomb or nuclear explosion). Hollis says his company has spent $100 million on the drug, Neumeune, betting the feds would stockpile doses for 12 million to 24 million people. As it turns out, the government intends to buy only 100,000 treatments for now, including alternatives to Neumeune. "If two years...