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This suggested, says Walker, that doctors must find better ways to drain lymph from around the organs, in order to relieve the pressure. And they need to develop an antitoxin, since even when antibiotics kill off the bacteria, the poison that the bug has emitted can still kill the patient. There is also an anthrax vaccine, made exclusively for the U.S. government by a private manufacturer named BioPort in Lansing, Mich. But in 1999 the FDA asked the company to stop shipment of its vaccine until BioPort instituted better quality-control measures. The company expects to begin shipping vaccines again...
...Taliban got its name, though the term now has an endangered ring. If Osama bin Laden is America's Enemy No. 1, Omar isn't far down the list. America is hoping that Omar's harsh, highly centralized five-year rule has alienated enough Afghans that support will drain away. If the U.S. and its allies want to get Omar, it should be far easier than nabbing bin Laden. For the past six years, Omar has worked from his guarded, palatial Kandahar bungalow. Just a year before that, he was a mere village clergyman living in a two-room rural...
...worst she sounds like a more confident Annie Hall. Sontag’s blandness makes us ask whether critical appreciation of serious art requires the critic to drain the blood from her prose style. The great fear of this reviewer is that if he continues to want to read criticism of serious art, he will have to get used to writing without a shine to it, the substance-heavy but styleless prose of a Susan Sontag...
...miles of Heartbreak Hill and the interminable length of Brookline, those mile-marker posters take on what Amie calls “an almost totemic significance” for the walkers, who’ve now developed a slight stagger and are trying, less and less successfully, to drain the pooling blood from their hands. But mile 25 will be next, and then 26–and from there it’s only 0.2 miles to the tents and music and mylar “space blankets” of Copley Plaza; just another turn, maybe two, hands held...
...It’s more that people just don’t have money on them than people don’t have money at all—it’s more credit than debt. There are none of us who it’s a serious money drain on. The highest debt I’ve ever known anyone to owe was about $1,500. It was an extreme situation. And it got paid off in three days...