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...Crude biological agents have been used in war for centuries. But today’s fears are of the deliberate creation of a virulent plague. Iraq, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Libya, Syria and Sudan are all known to have biological weapons programs. The U.S. and the Russia have both worked on the development of anthrax, a bacterium that is spread among livestock and that poses significant dangers to humans. Terrorists could even reverse one of humanity’s greatest achievements by reintroducing smallpox, which has been eradicated by a sustained global health effort and which is no longer treated...
Indeed, the most devastating nonmilitary chemical attack ever, by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Tokyo in 1995, killed only a dozen people. One reason is that the delivery method was crude: cultists dropped plastic bags of sarin (smuggled in lunch boxes and soft-drink containers) on a subway platform and pierced them with umbrella tips. Also the amounts were relatively small. Says Smithson: "Any bozo can make a chemical agent in a beaker, but producing tons and tons is difficult." Aum Shinrikyo tried to make the stuff in bulk, recruiting scientists and spending at least $10 million, but it failed...
...Indeed, the most devastating nonmilitary chemical attack ever, by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Tokyo in 1995, killed only a dozen people. One reason is that the delivery method was crude: cultists dropped plastic bags of sarin (smuggled in lunch boxes and soft-drink containers) on a subway platform and pierced them with umbrella tips. Also the amounts were relatively small. Says Smithson: "Any bozo can make a chemical agent in a beaker, but producing tons and tons is difficult." Aum Shinrikyo tried to make the stuff in bulk, recruiting scientists and spending at least $10 million, but it failed...
...gotten even worse-with the boys, I mean. Used to just be boring. Now, crude and totally...
Nobody would mistake Bubble Boy, the Disney Touchstone movie that opened last week, for high art. It's full of the tasteless humor and crude pratfalls that appeal to fifth-grade boys. Critics have called it a "gross-out comedy." But at least one boy was not amused. "I was just furious," says Jason Shuman, 10, of Sudbury, Mass. "I thought it was a movie that shouldn't have been out in the first place." No wonder. Like the film's hero, Jimmy Livingston, Jason suffers from an immune-system disorder that makes him highly susceptible to infections...