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...billion copies in 10 hours--technicians in gas masks and coveralls transferred them to a large production fermenter, where they bloomed into huge quantities. Iraq now admits to brewing more than 2,000 gal. of anthrax, but American experts think the true amount was three times that. A fatal dose is, says a U.S. Defense official, "smaller than a speck of dust, something you wouldn't even see." In a final step, the Iraqis refrigerated the muddy mixture; it could be loaded into a warhead shortly before launch...
...Mikayla; she had finally become pregnant after spending a fruitless year on one fertility drug and then switching to the more powerful Metrodin. Neither she nor Kenny wanted to wait a year this time, so she went on Metrodin right away--though, on Hauser's advice, at a lower dose. But while doctors can carefully control the number of embryos they insert with in-vitro fertilization, fertility drugs are basically a roll of the dice...
...Actually, the Propecia program is just a one-fifth dose of Proscar, an existing drug used to treat enlarged prostates. And there are some rare (but deliciously ironic) side effects for men in search of lost youth: decreased libido and sexual dysfunction...
Although a week provides little time for students to form concrete conclusions about a given field, Arnotte says, externships offer participants "a good dose of career exploration," often in parts of the country or in specialized careers they might not think to explore...
...panickers to the exit. The sell-off remained orderly until Barton Biggs, one of the reigning rainmakers on Wall Street, conducted a conference call with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter clients. Set up by brokers who actually thought Biggs might be bullish, the big shots who dialed in got a dose of fear that would have chilled Roosevelt in '32. Biggs, it seems, had just come back from the Far East, and he was terrified by what he saw. He invoked all the bearish icons: the Great Depression, the Crash of '29 (I guess '87 seemed too benign...