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...country's nearly 7,000 local health departments, which still must train hospitals and physicians in how to spot and treat the symptoms of bioterrorism. "We haven't really gotten stuff done yet," says Tara O'Toole, a biodefense expert at Johns Hopkins University. Government researchers are also playing catch-up: a recent Defense Department analysis found that the U.S. has countermeasures against only a third of the most likely bioterror pathogens. And like Osama bin Laden, those responsible for the anthrax terror remain at large...
...cult icon among American hipsters. What's the appeal? With his vicious fangs and sad button eyes, Domo-kun is tough, yet vulnerable. Kind of like Harrison Ford, if Harrison Ford were a small, feral Teletubby. So far, Domo-kun dolls are a prized rarity Stateside, but you can catch his TV spots online at drew.corrupt.net/domo.html --By Lev Grossman
...When the U.S. captured Zubaydah in a daring raid in Pakistan in late March it was the biggest catch of the war on al-Qaeda so far. The 31-year-old, born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinian parents, was the Number 3 man on the al-Qaeda org chart. He'd been in charge of the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda taught many Europe-based Arabs. His fingerprints appear on most of the group's terrorist plots during the past few years: Zubaydah was implicated in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa; he allegedly played...
...sound a note of Let's-Roll-ism. (The American flag filling the screen in the final moments, on the other hand, is as subtle as a black-widow bite.) It might be off-putting, seeing a superhero saving New York, reminding us that there was no one to catch those airliners in his supertensile webbing last year. But Spider-Man's flawed hero fits naturally into a flawed world, where sometimes the best intentions and superdefenses fall tragically short...
...hospitalized for depression shows that high-priced antidepressants and dummy pills both cause visible changes in the mood-regulating regions of the brain. Asked how they felt, patients on fake and real pills alike reported that their symptoms improved. But don't tear up your prescription just yet. The catch? The subjects' moods may have lifted in part because they had left their usual worries behind and moved into a supportive environment. Also, it's not clear that the effect will last; placebo effects are notoriously short-lived. Moreover, dummy pills work only if patients believe they are getting...