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...would "quickly make available effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola and plague." That sounded like a good idea, considering the havoc wrought by the anthrax mailings of 2001, which killed five people and set off a near panic for treatment. So Congress anted up. Eighteen months later, Bush signed BioShield into law. The measure set aside $5.6 billion for drug companies, offered the promise of a guaranteed and speedy contract--even an opportunity to sell the government novel treatments before they are fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The law, Bush promised...
...this communist insurgency and your broadcasts urging them on and so on." He screwed up his eyes, peered at me, and asked, "What do you want me to do?" I said, "Stop it." One young man telling one old grizzly, guerrilla fighter: "Stop it." He said, "Give me time." Eighteen months later he stopped it. That man faced reality. I'm convinced that his visit to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, that journey, in November '78, was a shock to him. He expected three third-world cities; he saw three second-world cities, better than Shanghai or Beijing...
...Eighteen months before Katrina, business leaders in New Orleans created an economic development vehicle, GNO Inc., with a five-year goal of creating 30,000 jobs. They may make their goal quicker than that, but the jobs will be in Baton Rouge, or perhaps Houston and Atlanta, thanks to the hurricane. At a downtown job fair last week, Leo G. Doyle, a sales-training manager for UPS, said his company lost 30% of its work force after Katrina and was looking for drivers and package handlers. "We have a lot of good workers who have been displaced...
...third was a good feeling after suffering some rough breaks.”The strong Sunday effort saved Harvard from a middle-of-the-road finish after a frustrating Saturday. Manning the A-division, juniors Clay Johnson and Kristen Lynch finished dead last out of eighteen competing teams in two of the first eight races. They also ended the regatta’s first half on a disappointing note, coming in 15th in the day’s final race.Porter and fellow senior Ruth Schlitz, sailing in the B-division, had an even greater deficit to overcome. They opened...
...puck bounced everywhere. We made it so much harder on our selves then it needed to be.” In fact, the last two frames were almost the Crimson demise, as the Bobcats outshot it 24-to-16 and scored three goals to Harvard’s two. Eighteen of those shots came in the third period, when Boe had to save a barrage at the end to seal the win for the Crimson. Along with the power kill unit, Boe saved two key penalties in the last five minutes. “The big moments came when...