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...Taliban has no spy-in-the-sky satellites. It can't bug a telephone or crack an enemy code. But even so, its intelligence service is murderously effective--both inside Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan, where Taliban spies are suspected of having carried out several assassinations in the past two years...
...tool of destruction, the smallpox virus is ideal. Simply exposing people to the bug in its natural state, without significantly manipulating or processing it, is sufficient to seed an epidemic. Unlike anthrax, smallpox is highly contagious (just one infected person could cause the virus to radiate from a family to a neighborhood to a city in a matter of months), and smallpox cannot be treated effectively once symptoms begin (30% of those infected will die). The vaccine is 100% effective, but only in protecting against the disease before exposure. Although studies show that inoculation can prevent infection if given...
What followed was the great War of the Studios. In 1998, DreamWorks attempted to preempt Disney’s release of the computer-generated A Bug’s Life by turning out their own insect story, Antz, a few months earlier. Disney won the Battle of the Bug, but in 1999 DreamWorks was back with the very Disney-esque animated musical epic The Prince of Egypt. This effort was more successful than Antz, but only by about $10 million; it grossed $101 million (compared with $300+ million for The Lion King...
...living former U.S. chief exec. Wife Nancy holds record for stiffest First Lady hairdo BORA MILUTINOVIC China's Yugoslav coach takes his fifth team in a row to the World Cup. The squad will also likely be his fifth team in a row to exit early BROWN MARMORATED STINK BUG Smelly, destructive beetle native to China invades Pennsylvania. Possible U.S. response: sending Senator Arlen Specter to China...
Just when it seemed that the Crimson had its core of key players healthy and ready to perform, the injury bug struck again against the Tigers...