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Probably the most important of the additional security steps is the recommendation that all experiments undertaken at the p-3 level use a host-vector system of at least an EK-2 level of biological containment...
...EK-2 host-vector systems refer to Eschirichia coli, a strain of bacteria that rarely survives outside the lab, which can be used as a host bacteria for recombinant DNA experiments...
...requirement of the EK-2 hosts in p-3 labs that left Meselson with his only reservation about the report. "I think the guidelines they set up would be safe for p-4 experiments," Meselson said Wednesday, adding that he didn't think the weak strain EK-2 requirement was used at any of the other 12 research sites funded...
...added the EK-2 stricture was originally proposed in a University of Michigan study that recommended the use of Eschirichia coli at all lab levels, from p-1 to p-4. It was limited by Michigan regents to p-3 and p-4 levels to save money, Hayes said...
Private Ivan Chonkin bears a Slavic resemblance to Jaroslav Haśek's The Good Soldier Schweik. But where Schweik was a shrewd operator in the Austro-Czech army of World War I, Good Soldier Chonkin belongs to an older tradition. He is the wise fool, the slow-witted peasant who mulishly plows a straight furrow through a devious world. Chonkin even looks as if he had plodded from the pages of folklore, "his field shirt hanging out over his belt, his forage cap down over his big red ears, his puttees slipping...