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...Very often there's a lot of anxiety, which is also a big risk factor. The other emotion you see very often in elderly suicides is guilt, that somehow they did wrong in their relationship with their children or with their husband or wife. Even if there's a germ of truth in it, it's exaggerated a hundredfold. You also need to look for signs where the person talks as if they're not going to go on living. They say things like "You will all be better off without me, because of the trouble that I am." Some...
...says Duelfer of the Iraqi bio cache, "we could never nail it all down." Even if inspectors had found all the materials before they left the country, Iraq has almost certainly made more in the past three years. Thanks to Rihab Taha, a British-educated Iraqi biochemist, nicknamed Dr. Germ by the U.N. inspectors, Saddam still has the best biological expertise in the region...
...Bush Administration, in fact, is convinced that Cuba is a genuine terrorist state only ninety miles from our shores capable of manufacturing genetically modified germ weapons. They've re-reported that in a speech delivered at Tehran University Castro boasted that Iran and Cuba could "bring America to its knees." Insisting that Cuba was just an innocent "lamb" trying to survive next to the American "dragon," Castro threatened that the "dragon would find its meal poisoned if it tried to eat the lamb...
According to Kimberly Thompson, who published a book earlier this month called Overkill: How Our Nation’s Abuse of Antibiotics and Other Germ Killers is Hurting Your Health and What You Can Do About It, her work “puts the public back in public health” by making people more aware of how they can assess and respond to risks from germs as well as bioterrorism...
BUBBLE BREAKTHROUGH In the first clear win for gene therapy, French doctors report that they have successfully treated four boys with "bubble boy" disease, the immune-system disorder so devastating that its victims spend their lives confined in germ-free isolation. It was 2 1/2 years ago that doctors first repaired the genetic mutation that kept the children from producing healthy infection-fighting cells, and today the kids are still thriving. It was a dramatic coup for a therapy that has had more than its share of failures...