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...applications for Schultz's invention is fighting burns from sulfur mustard, which was Saddam Hussein's poison gas of choice. (He deployed it against Iraq's Kurds and stockpiled it for use on coalition troops.) The U.S. Army has asked Schultz and his company, Quick-Med Technologies of Gainesville, Fla., to develop a dressing that could be used to treat sulfur-mustard blisters. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense has ordered up $1 million worth of research into a mustard-gas ointment. "It's all the same technology," says Schultz. "It's just adapted for different uses...
Literature is not a democracy. In the book world, being popular does not necessarily make you great. But if it were, and if it did, then the man sitting across the table from me in a canary-yellow mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., would be president-for-life of the literary universe, and Philip Roth would be a comptroller in North Dakota...
...Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998 to 2001, appointed by former Gov. Jim Gilmore, and came to Washington as the deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for Bush. In that job, Bush introduced him at events in the White House and on the road in Tampa, Fla., and Bethesda, Md. As domestic policy adviser, Allen occasionally briefed the reporters...
Editor's Note: Former Harvard hurler Frank Herrmann '06, a prospect with the Cleveland Indians, reported to camp in Winter Haven, Fla. last week. This is his diary...
...clothing and all manner of emotional manipulations. In the log itself, al-Qahtani both admits and denies working with al-Qaeda. U.S. forces captured him fleeing the battle in Tora Bora in Afghanistan in December 2001. The month before 9/11, he tried to enter the U.S. through Orlando, Fla.--while 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta waited for him in the airport parking lot--but was deported after he became evasive with an immigration agent. The Pentagon contends that over time al-Qahtani, known as Detainee 063, proved an invaluable source, identifying al-Qaeda financial contacts in several Arab countries, describing meetings...