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...It’s a very different branch of Harvards,” he says, going on to explain that it has nothing really to do with the Puritanical Harvards at all. “My parents came form Iceland. Our family name is rather difficult to pronounce,” he says, attempting to phonetically spell the Icelandic Heidman (his best attempt: hayth-man). Young John Heidman was given the middle name Harvard by his mother, who was partial to the Harvard training aircraft that the Canadian military flew at noisy intervals over their Winnipeg home. But when...
Samir, a chemicals expert who worked for a branch of the MIC called the National Monitoring Directorate, says he knows of a case in which 14 artillery shells filled with mustard gas were preserved out of a batch of 250 slated for destruction. The main purpose of keeping them, he says, was to test their deterioration over time. The Iraqis handed over the shells to the U.N. in 1997, claiming that they had been mis-stored and recently discovered, an explanation Samir says was a ruse. When four of the shells were unsealed, tests found their contents...
Boston’s Mix 98.5 presents Mixfest X, the tenth year in what many consider the best Adult Radio concert series. This year’s concert features Mixfest alumni Duran Duran, Barenaked Ladies and Train, as well as radio favorites Dido, Tori Amos, Michelle Branch, and Vertical Horizon. Jason Mraz, the breakout star of the summer, will also take the stage, and Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray is the guest MC. 6 p.m. $39.50-87.50. FleetCenter, 1 FleetCenter Pl., Boston...
Boston University’s proposal for a new Biosecurity Level 4 (BSL-4) facility—a set of maximum-security laboratories where work will include vaccine research in space-suit-like costumes—was accepted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The laboratory, slated for completion by 2008, will be built in Boston’s South End from about $120 million in NIAID grant funding...
...There’s some validity to his theory but I’m not sure that it works in every case,” said Robert Tesh, a professor of pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston...