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...addition to showcasing new inventions, the convention named Dr. Joseph L. Horner Inventor of the Year for his 25 years of internationally acclaimed work...
...Horner, an international authority in optics, has received four consecutive Scientific Achievement Awards based on his work on phase-only filters and optical correlators...
Biological agents, including anthrax and botulism toxin, remain the biggest threat. At the time of the allied aerial attacks last winter, pilots avoided targeting sites where biological weapons were believed to be stored, or hitting them with incendiary bombs. According to Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner, who ran the allied air campaign, a strike by a conventional bomb could have spread a deadly agent across the countryside, killing millions. As a result, Iraq's biological stocks are largely intact, and a U.S. attack poses the same risks that it did during the war. Unless Saddam discloses the whereabouts...
...innocents in Chicago's violent public housing projects. Children who live in the 19 complexes scattered around the city regularly witness random shootings and brutal deaths. One of the first things they learn is to hit the deck when gunfire erupts. Playing in the courtyard of the Henry Horner Homes -- a 21-building project made infamous by Alex Kotlowitz's book There Are No Children Here -- Meeka Boyd, 11, described the shooting of a young man on a basketball court that she saw last year. Her friend Netisha Stroger, also 11, saw a girl shot...
...illogic -- some would say hypocrisy -- of the N.R.A.'s position is underscored by the fact that there has been little visible support within the project for its initiative. On the contrary, members of the Mother's Guild, a tenants' advocacy group at the Henry Horner Homes, strongly favor the gun ban. Though guild member Hazel Holmes has been robbed several times, she says she does not want a gun for protection. "I was raised in Mississippi, and my father had hunting guns around the house," she explains. "But he always ((said)) that guns are not for killing humans...