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...that, say French authorities, is exactly why these operatives represent such a grave threat in the battle against terrorism: they are hard to detect and their numbers are impossible to estimate. All the murderous designs of people like Atta and Reid would certainly fail without the kind of help Cherifi is accused of providing...
...proteomics involves baker's yeast. Millennium uses mass spectroscopy--a way of producing unique signatures of proteins by tearing them apart and weighing the fragments--to detect drug targets rapidly. Its technology has won the company strong alliances with traditional drug firms, including a $450 million anti-inflammatory drug-development alliance with Aventis and a $465 million research agreement with Bayer. Millennium also has a $250 million partnership with Abbott Laboratories focused on metabolic diseases. Last month the pair announced that they were beginning clinical trials on a candidate drug against obesity...
...does this justify his charge that their only interest in attending Harvard in the first place was to simply mold clay or play the cello? We doubt this letter would have found its way to The Crimson if instead it were a Bill Gates-type who withdrew. We detect a healthy level of anti-athlete prejudice...
...packages that the Republicans have put forward in both the House and the Senate are not very well designed. They're basically just giving large wealth transfers to corporations and high-income individuals. If we were in more normal times, there would be more willingness to criticize this. I detect a reluctance from Democrats to take on President Bush on this issue...
While other air sniffers are in the works or already in use, the refrigerator-size APDS stands out for its ability to rapidly detect even trace amounts of 100 different germs. To avoid the nuisance of false positives, suspected pathogens undergo a second, DNA-based test before officials are alerted...