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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERM WARFARE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...with a group of semi-independent terrorists, like radical Islamist groups, who might slip such bioweapons into the U.S. and use them. It wouldn't take much. This is the poor man's atom bomb. A gram of anthrax culture contains a trillion spores, theoretically enough for 100 million fatal doses. The stuff can be spread into the air with backpack sprayers or even perfume atomizers. The U.N.'s specialists say that 100 lbs. of anthrax bacteria sprayed around a city of 1 million could kill 36,000 people within a week. And Saddam has produced anthrax in large amounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICA THE VULNERABLE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...between reporting the news and fabricating it when he turns a hostage crisis involving a fired janitor (John Travolta) into a media circus. Unfortunately, this preachy film also crosses a line--the one that separates commentary from polemic. Despite fine performances from Hoffman and Travolta, it suffers from a fatal heavy-handedness...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, | Title: Mad City | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...cross the line" between reporting the news and fabricating it when he turns a hostage crisis involving a fired janitor (John Travolta) into a media circus. Unfortunately, this preachy film also croosses a line--the one that separates commentary from polemic. Despite fine performances, it suffers from a fatal heavy-handedness...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, | Title: Mad City | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...Downey Jr.), a performance artist stricken with AIDS, gets separated from his production team and somehow ends up stranded in the city with Karen (Nastassja Kinski), a beautiful rocket scientist (you heard me). After going to a Beethoven concert, flirting shamelessly at a jazz club and escaping a nearly fatal mugging, Karen and Max, surprise, surprise, end up in bed together. Snipes returns home emotionally shaken and begins to question the stability of his marriage and the value of his work. A year passes, and Snipes returns to New York--this time with his wife--to visit Charlie...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'One Night Stand' No 'Vegas' | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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