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...grenades, many of them flying off in random directions. The big artillery shells went off with ground-shaking booms, and the shockwaves pressed me into the turf. But much more frightening were the anti-aircraft shells, which fizzed about - some along the ground, some in the air - in lethal balls of orange flame. A few of the rockets took off with a great hiss, like supercharged Chinese fireworks...
...uprising. Nor does the easy run to Baghdad predict how hard Saddam's men may fight inside the capital. Administration officials still hope Saddam's government will implode under the tightening pressure. But as U.S. forces encircled the city, Rumsfeld cautioned that the regime "may prove to be more lethal in the final moments...
...lethal as you might fear. As of last Saturday, 89 people had died of SARS, none of them in the U.S. Health officials put the mortality rate from SARS at 3.7%. By comparison, the West Nile virus killed 277 Americans last year (a 6.7% death rate), and the flu kills 36,000 people a year in the U.S. alone...
...LETHAL DOSE 4,500 mg on skin, 1,500 mg inhaled...
...LETHAL DOSE 1,700 mg on skin, 70 mg inhaled...