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...what appears to have been a rhetorical blunder in a speech at Harvard Medical School (HMS) on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said South Korea currently possesses nuclear weapons and is developing a long-range missile program...
...Frist, an HMS alum, returned to his alma mater yesterday to propose a “Manhattan Project for the 21st Century” that would combat bioterrorism and infectious diseases...
...question-and-answer session after the speech, a student asked Frist why—given the urgency of the bioterror threat—Congress has focused funding on efforts to defend against nuclear attacks. The most recent Pentagon budget, which Frist helped to steer through the Senate, allocates $10 billion toward the so-called “Star Wars” ballistic missile shield...
More than 100 students, faculty members, and staff members presented Frist with an open letter lambasting the senator’s legislative actions...
...letter suggested that Frist has failed to take concrete measures to bring an end to genocide in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. It also criticized Frist’s voting record on HIV/AIDS funding, women’s reproductive health care, and abortion rights...