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...five vice-chairman chosen representing the different regions of the country are: Langdon P. Marvin '98, New York lawyer and former member of the Board of Overseers; Albert A. Sprague '98, Chicago civic leader and member of the Board of Overseers; Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. '00, St. Louis chemist and member of the Board of Overseers; Charles E. Perkins '04, corporation official of Santa Barbara, Calif., and William Tudor Gardiner '14, of Gardiner, Me., a former governor of Maine...
...just in time to fill the holiday news vacuum. The news came as a shock but not much of a surprise. It was only a matter of time before one of the teams racing to produce the first human clone either succeeded or just decided to claim it had. Chemist Brigitte Boisselier, president of the biotech company Clonaid, is a member of the Order of Angels of the Raelian religious cult, whose prophet Rael says 4-ft.-tall green space aliens visited him 30 years ago in a French volcano and revealed that all of us are descended from...
...explosives and in basic chemical terror, including the poisoning of water and food supplies. Indeed, Georgian security sources say the al-Qaeda operatives in the Pankisi region - who moved out in the middle of last year when Georgia began cracking down on them - included Middle Eastern "chemists" skilled in poisons. Many of them, Georgian sources told Time, subsequently ended up in U.S. hands - when Georgians thwarted poison attacks against American citizens and installations in other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia. One of the main al-Qaeda lieutenants in the Chechnya-Georgia region, says Jacquard, is a Jordanian known...
...resolution investing power in the inspectors said they had to represent "the broadest possible geographic base"; accordingly, they come from 49 countries. Among the team members are a retired U.S. Army colonel who guided nuclear inspectors through Russia in the 1990s to enforce disarmament agreements, an Egyptian chemist who worked for her country's atomic-energy laboratory and a Virginia man who founded his own security-consulting company...
...risks of such casual oversight--coupled with the pressure that labs are under to produce evidence--were underscored last year when Oklahoma police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was fired, allegedly for committing scientific errors and misinterpreting results. The state is reviewing more than 1,000 cases she handled. Gilchrist denies any wrongdoing...