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...MILF, however, has consistently denied any links with JI. "JI is a germ," is how MILF negotiator Michael Mastura put it to TIME. "Why should we allow ourselves to become infected?" Mastura says statements made by JI detainees like Hambali, which occur under the extreme duress of interrogation, aren't credible. Moreover, the MILF promised a year-and-a-half ago to cut all ties with foreign and local terrorists as part of the peace negotiations. Since then, the Philippine government has skirted the subject of JI's presence in Mindanao. "We give our MILF brethren the benefit...
...Iraq has come back with news that all sides are using as an occasion for "I told you so." In an interim report to Congress, David Kay said his 1,200-member inspection team had "not yet found stocks" of illicit weapons--no large caches of poison gas or germ agents, no proof that Saddam was remotely close to reconstituting a nuclear program and no evidence of an attempt to buy uranium from Africa. In fact, the report said an African country had offered uranium to Iraq, but Saddam apparently did not follow up. Kay even backed away from Bush...
...says. Some U.N. inspectors, disagree, saying they believe that there was no further production after 1991. Spertzel says an Iraqi scientist phoned him just this past April and told him an "edict" went out from Saddam shortly before the war ordering his biological-weapons teams to destroy any remaining germ stockpiles...
...enough to induce a bad case of cabin fever for Asia's office-bound workers?and there's no relief to be had through leisure travel. The suddenly germ-phobic nation of Thailand, which made headlines early in the outbreak by requiring visitors to wear masks under pain of a fine or imprisonment, now hands out "health passports" to travelers from SARS-hit regions. The government says tourists will be required to undergo medical checks every three days for the first 10 days of their stay in the country, recording the results in these passports. While it's far from...
...genes. Now I believe there are no limits--no technical limits anyway. Within the next half-century, and probably much sooner, we will have a complete understanding of what every gene does. We will also be able to repair individual genomes by replacing defective genes. This so-called germ-line genetic engineering is currently viewed with horror, but that will change as people realize that fixing the faulty gene that causes Huntington's disease in all future generations, for example, is a good thing...