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...owns Radio Shack and Computer City, acknowledged that Incredible Universe was really an incredible flop and pulled the plug on the entire 17-store operation. The closings, plus the stores' losses, totaled some $230 million and completely wiped out Tandy's profits for 1996. "Maybe," says retail analyst Lynn Detrick of Williams MacKay Jordan & Co. of Houston, "this does suggest that you can take it too far, that stores can be too big and inconvenient." What an incredible thought...
...research was conducted at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland...
DIED. RILEY HOUSEWRIGHT, 89, microbiologist who helped direct federal research in biological warfare; in Frederick, Md. As scientific director of the U.S. Army Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., for 14 years, Housewright oversaw the development of anthrax spores, botulinum toxin and viruses such as encephalitis and yellow fever, with the intent of using them against U.S. enemies. The lab closed in 1970 when President Richard Nixon banned offensive biological weapons...
...likely suspect for months, she claims, yet the FBI has not made an arrest. Without naming the suspect, she says he has received the anthrax vaccine, has a job that involves devising bioterror scenarios and once worked for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. That facility works with the Ames strain of anthrax, which was used in the attacks. She also says the suspect recently "had a career setback that challenged his high ambitions and left him angry and depressed...
...Reported by Andrea Dorfman, Alice Park and Sora Song/New York; Andrew Goldstein/Fort Detrick; and Elaine Shannon/Washington