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...rivers, scrounging for small comforts ... War was watching their friends die, one after the other, day after day after day. War was learning the ecstasy of wiggling a little finger just to see it move and know that you were still alive. War was hell. Willie and Joe were combat infantrymen...
...after a Hamas suicide bombing - the group's first carried out by a woman - killed four Israelis at a border crossing. Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Zeev Boim named Hamas' spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin as a key target. Military Move JAPAN In the first deployment of Japanese troops to a combat zone since World War II, 30 members of what will be a 1,000-strong humanitarian force left for Iraq. Polls show that about half of Japanese oppose the mission. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi argued the country has a responsibility to participate in Iraq 's reconstruction. On the Offensive...
Avanir’s antibiotic would be more powerful and possibly more effective than the current anthrax vaccines that require booster shots every year to remain potent and that combat only anthrax bacteria. But unlike the Avanir antibiotic, Cantley said he hoped that a drug designed to inhibit anthrax lethal factor would be effectively administrable after contraction of anthrax, thereby lessening the need to inoculate large populations and saving lives in cases of late diagnosis...
Once those tests prove successful, the private sector will become involved in creating a drug, and Cantley’s research partners at Fort Dietrich military research base in Maryland will take over testing on primates. A drug to combat anthrax toxin cannot be tested on humans because of the ethical and legal dilemmas of exposing humans to a potentially deadly disease...
Pharmaceutical companies would not ordinarily be interested in pursuing a drug to combat anthrax toxin because of the low likelihood that an average person would be exposed to anthrax, Cantley said. But because of the prospect of obtaining lucrative government contracts, private companies have already expressed interest in creating such a drug, he added...