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...taking a big chance just stomping on it." There is no commercial market for TATP; it's too hard to handle. Terrorists increasingly favor it because recipes are all over the Internet, the ingredients can be found in any pharmacy, it's hard to detect, and mules like Reid are going to die anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EXPLOSIVES: Who Built Reid's Shoes? | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror's Little Helpers | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biotech Grows Up | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nick Lenicheck and Brad R. Sohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hockey Player’s Motives Mischaracterized | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Thinking | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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