Word: germ
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...less publicized wonders of modern medicine that the planet's most lethal toxin--the one that causes botulism in badly canned vegetables and can make a capable germ-warfare agent--now offers hope for the vain. A less messy alternative to face-lifts and chemical peels, Botox was first approved by the FDA in 1989 for the treatment of spastic eye muscles. It didn't take long, however, for doctors to discover its "off-label" cosmetic applications. Last year, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, more than 65,000 Botox procedures were performed--mostly on women...
...surfer and a hospital corpsman in Vietnam. He is a presidential adviser on germ warfare and a millionaire yachtsman who, in his 82-ft. sloop Sorcerer, won the first transatlantic race he entered. Indeed, Sorcerer is an appropriate name for a boat owned by J. Craig Venter, one of America's most high-profile biologists. For Venter has conjured up an audacious plan that has so shaken the world of science that it was the focus of a congressional hearing last week...
...rude streak is indeed stoked by cartoons. After savoring some impossible TV torture that Itchy the mouse has wreaked on Scratchy the cat, Bart says, "Lisa, if I ever stop loving violence, I want you to shoot me." (Lisa: "Will do.") Maybe the Simpson home carries its own germ of carnage. In the episode where evil old Mr. Burns adopts Bart as his heir and whisks him away, sweet Lisa is seen ripping off strips of wallpaper. Confronted by Marge, Lisa explains that she is "just trying to fill the void of random, meaningless destruction that Bart's absence...
...GERM WARFARE Scientists studying the Epstein-Barr virus in immunosuppressed patients may have figured out how viruses are linked to tumors. Cancer therapies targeting viruses could result...
...Iraqi government announced last week that NASSIR AL-HINDAWI, a 70-year-old microbiologist who is the former director of Iraq's biological-weapons program, was arrested trying to fly out of Baghdad with 200 pages of documents on SADDAM HUSSEIN's germ-warfare program. Though Iraqi police claim he was taking the documents to a "rogue" nation, White House aides suspect that the arrest was staged as part of an elaborate psychological operation by Saddam to persuade the United Nations that he is now serious about dismantling his weapons of mass destruction. After the arrest, the police turned over...