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...Afghan driver took me west of Kandahar, where U.S. jets had destroyed a Taliban training facility. The underground bunkers had been unearthed, and the compound's interior was pocked with craters. An old Russian truck was parked along one of the boundary walls; it seemed most military hardware had been removed before the attack...
...paper, Clapham speculated that CatSper could be a target for a new type of contraceptive. If successfully made, such a compound would likely have the benefit of few side effects...
...Since the channel is only in sperm, it is likely that the compound would affect no other cells in the body,” says Garbers...
...compound, if discovered, could theoretically be taken either by a man or woman, or even after sex, to prevent fertilization...
Before U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspectors were forced to pull out of Iraq in December 1998, the world knew what Iraq had. At least four tons of VX gas--a sulfurous compound that is among the most toxic chemical agents--were unaccounted for, as well as an estimated several hundred metric tons of the raw materials required to make sarin and mustard gas. After years of denying that it even had a biological-weapons program, Iraq admitted in 1995 that it had produced 8,500 liters of concentrated anthrax and 19,000 liters of undiluted botulinum toxin. UNSCOM destroyed...