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What is the best way to tell a secret? Whisper it as quietly as possible. How quietly is that? Richard Hughes, 47, a researcher at the fabled Department of Energy lab in Los Alamos, N.M., and the preeminent researcher in the mind-bending field of quantum cryptography, speaks as softly as can be--in single photons of light. Combining cutting-edge encryption with the arcana of subatomic physics, Hughes designs coded messages that can be neither broken nor intercepted...
...undoubtedly a loner; if he lives with someone, there's almost certainly a place in the house--a basement, maybe, or a garage--that would be off-limits to anyone else. He's got some sort of scientific background and may make his living working in a lab. He doesn't like confrontation, but he's seething with repressed anger. And starting Sept. 11, he became intensely preoccupied--but seemingly not, strangely enough, with the events that gripped the rest of the nation...
...opportunist," says Fitzgerald, arguing that the man used the events of Sept. 11 as a cover. And while the finely powdered anthrax sent to Senator Daschle points to a skilled manufacturer, it need not have come from a professional bioweaponeer; it could have been made in a home lab with a budget...
...self-medicating with antibiotics. After the letters were mailed, he would have become obsessed with reading the papers and watching TV, especially when the anthrax news broke. Another possible clue: the letters were mailed on Tuesdays in all three cases. That suggests this domestic terrorist had access to a lab only on weekends; he would then package the stuff on Monday and send it out the next...
...feel like there aren’t many opportunities on campus—people have complained that if you’re not a hardcore artist, you can’t get into a lot of VES classes, and there are such huge time commitments, like in the photo lab.... With performing arts, there’s a set time and place, but with visual arts you can just wander in and browse around...