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...gets worse. "Intelligence professionals reviewing this case would have to consider whether Ressam may have been a decoy designed to draw attention away from someone else," says Dowell. "In Vietnam, the Viet Cong would often do all the preparations for an attack, knowing U.S. intelligence would pick it up and protect against it, but then not actually attack. If you have a big organization, you want to send out a lot of false signals to stretch your enemy's resources and keep him guessing about when you're really planning to strike...
POINTING A FINGER It's only one case, but fascinating nonetheless. A dentist who knew she was allergic to protective latex gloves noticed that the same foods she ate safely at home set off a severe allergic reaction when she ate them at a restaurant. Could it be the gloves food handlers wear? To test the hypothesis, researchers fed her orange juice stirred with a finger sheathed in latex as well as untampered juice. Sure enough, minutes after drinking the stirred juice, her chest tightened and wheezing began. Researchers suspect she's not alone...
...condition, which affects 2 million Americans and caused presidential hopeful Bill Bradley to cancel an afternoon of West Coast appearances last week, is not always the intimation of mortality that it seems. A lot depends on just how healthy the heart is in the first place. And in the case of this former Knick forward, who still occasionally enjoys shooting hoops, the ticker appears to be in tip-top shape...
Still, Miller inherits a case study in the perils of trying too hard to please today's growth-hungry stock market. As the drugstore industry has consolidated into a few dominant national chains, Martin Grass (son of Rite Aid founder Alex Grass) nearly doubled the number of outlets, buying independents and refashioning smaller locations into 10,000-sq.-ft. convenience stores. That kind of real estate doesn't come cheap. In 1996, Grass shelled out $1.4 billion for a thousand Thrifty PayLess drugstores on the West Coast. Then a year ago, he spent $1.5 billion on PCS Health Systems...
...potential upside of the lawsuit (beyond any money that might come his way) is an improved chance for acquittal in the criminal case. If he proves the feds acted wantonly in the investigation, it'll put the integrity of the criminal investigation into question. A finding in favor of Lee is also sure to raise further questions about the government's investigative procedures, including press leaks and whether it practices racial profiling...