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...Professor Entin also questions the message sent by the President's decision. "My concern about this order, not having reviewed every detail, is that it kind of undercuts the efforts we've been making as a nation to distinguish ourselves from regimes like the Taliban," he says. "It sort of suggests that when the going gets tough, we don't really believe in our ideals either...
...course, we shouldn’t wish for anthrax. Inhalation anthrax is a brutal disease, killing victims who do not distinguish their flu-like symptoms from the common flu in time to take the life-saving antibiotics. Even the most vainglorious of us cannot really want their fame confirmed by death. Neither do we need an anthrax infection to confirm our solidarity with victims of terrorism. If the joke about being infected by anthrax lingers, as it seems likely to do well into cold season, it shouldn’t be repeated as it is now, in tones revealing equal...
...York City's Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, advised New Yorkers last week to get a flu shot. After all, 20,000 Americans each year die of influenza. And this year in particular, the mayor suggested, getting a flu shot might be an especially good idea, since it could help doctors distinguish between flu and the deadly inhalational form of anthrax. How? Both anthrax and flu exhibit strikingly similar symptoms--fever, chills and muscle aches--in the early days of the infection. Physicians would be quick to suspect anthrax in anyone who was vaccinated against flu and still developed fever and chills...
That many in the rock press and on commercial radio have failed to distinguish between Incubus and the hybridists irritates Einziger ("There is no rap in our metal," he says, bewildered. "There's barely any metal in our metal.") But at this particular moment in pop music, the confusion is opportune. The record industry, like every other business, is struggling to move product in a post-disaster world. Incubus, which released its fifth album, Morning View (Epic), on Oct. 23, has a patina of metal hardness that attracts teen boys; Boyd, recently named one of "The Hottest Guys in Music...
...tried to distinguish herself by moving herself to the farther left,” Cambridge political pundit Glenn S. Koocher ’71 says...