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Despite all the attention being given crop dusters, using one to spread germs is not as easy as it sounds. The planes are designed to spray pesticides in heavy, concentrated streams, whereas bioweapons are ideally scattered in a fine mist over as large an area as possible. The nozzles in crop dusters are best suited to discharging relatively large particles--100 microns in diameter--not tiny 1-micron specks of bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnosing The Risks | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...hysteria. After the Challenger explosion, people swore they had seen crew members leave the space shuttle before takeoff. We are currently seized by the same phenomenon but of an unprecedented order of magnitude. "People are looking for certainty, and they don't care where they get it," says Gary Fine, a sociology professor at Northwestern University who specializes in the study of rumors. "They would rather know something for sure, even if that thing for sure is wrong, because it provides them a sense of stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did You Hear About... | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...create what it must have been like to have been President Nixon. Reeves used the same technique in writing brilliantly about John Kennedy's presidency, and what emerges from this new masterpiece of research is a distillation of Nixon and his men, making a kind of fine cognac out of the millions of barrels of Nixonian wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside The White House That Was Built Of Lies | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...Study Your Insurance Policy's Fine Print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Security: Girding Against New Risks | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...Islamic Youth Movement's Jakarta office, waiting to volunteer to fight in Afghanistan. Nearly 500 men and 16 women have signed up thus far. The doctor thinks she can provide medical assistance. But, she insists, "If they want to send me to the front line, that's fine with me. Just give me a gun and I'll be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Voices | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

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