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...sheer scariness, the most grim talk came from Raymond Zilinskas, an expert in bioterrorism at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. In chilling detail, he described the efforts of Soviet scientists at the height of the Cold War to develop lethal germs, such as variations of anthrax and the smallpox virus, that could be carried to targets almost anywhere on Earth by ballistic missile. While these programs have presumably long since been cancelled, he foresaw no real defense against such bioweapons, other than stronger international conventions. That's something the Bush administration has resolutely opposed, he said...
Buckley, who was Gurney professor of English literature emeritus, came to Harvard in 1969 at the height of campus turmoil...
...teams will remain blessed by a near-varsity player in their ranks. Anderle also puts his height to use for the Grays’ volleyball squad. But sometimes the lack of focus and commitment on them can get to Anderle. He tends to stay away from everything but basketball. He gets annoyed when people “fuck around with the volleyball and giggle when they drop...
...will coordinate releases that could amount to several million barrels a day from strategic reserves. But the shock could still push up prices to $80 per bbl., tailing off to about $50 by year's end. That compares with an inflation-adjusted price of $47 per bbl. at the height of the 1973 oil crisis. That kind of spike would hit stock markets hard and could send the global economy into a deep recession...
...should have photocopied this,” she says of the resume she will have to give to each director. But it’s been a tough week and she is forced to once again record her height, eye color and any “striking features”—for instance, a great French accent...