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...treatment, reported by Dr. Elizabeth Ziegler and colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, employs a man-made antibody called HA-1A designed to zero in on the endotoxin molecule and render it harmless. Although the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve HA-1A for use in the U.S., the agency has given the Pentagon special permission to utilize the antibody in the gulf. Large quantities are on hand in MASH units and field hospitals...
...Civil Defense authorities break into the radio broadcast to announce that an attack is underway and that all citizens should don their masks and move to the "Heder Ha'atum" (the one room in the house that citizens had previously, at the start of the Gulf War, been instructed to seal against chemical attack with foam and nylon sheeting). There we are to await further instructions from the army. "This is not," barks the Haga (Civil Defense authority) spokesperson, "a drill or an exercise." I put on my mask and place my anti-nerve gas injector and my mustard...
...talk to some people," says Vernon. We move back out to the street. A little boy wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle T-shirt taps me on the leg. He asks me if I am a reporter. "I guess," I tell him. "Tov, zeh heleck may ha-til [This is part of the missile]," he says, as he produces a contorted burned SCUD remain, "Birtzinut? [Is it really]", I ask, "Betach! [of course]" he responds, very matter of factly...
Strugnell's tenure was jeopardized by a November interview with the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, in which the scholar, calling himself an "anti-Judaist," declared that Judaism is a "horrible" religion with "racist" origins that in principle should not exist at all. "The correct answer of Jews to Christianity is to become Christian," said Strugnell, who denies he is an anti-Semite...
Harvard Divinity School's acting dean, Mark Edwards, declared those opinions to be "personally repugnant." Scholars had gossiped about Strugnell's views long before the Ha'aretz incident. As Washington's Biblical Archaeology Review released English excerpts from the interview, Strugnell's five colleagues on the scrolls team said they had already called for their boss's removal, citing his health problems -- among other things, he was known to be a heavy drinker -- and unspecified "complications...