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...conducting high-risk biological experiments in the U.S., with at least 15,000 technicians working daily on the world's deadliest pathogens - the vast majority of them for the first time. Though FBI background checks are required for people who handle so-called select agents - a government-drawn list of 73 highly lethal pathogens, such as Ebola, ricin and monkeypox - the vetting focuses on security, not bio-safety competence. Yet most lab accidents are due to simple human error, says Dr. Gigi Gronvall, Senior Associate at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh. Newbies...
...coming off a 201-yard performance in last week’s 45-7 win over Georgetown. A stout Harvard secondary will probably force the ball into the hands of running back Luke Siwula, who’s ranked fifth all-time on the Cornell rushing list...
Following last week’s loss to Lehigh, three Harvard players were named to the Ivy League honor roll. Pizzotti, freshman running back Gino Gordon, and captain defensive end Brad Bagdis all made the weekly list, a week after O’Hagan, senior wide receiver Corey Mazza, and senior cornerback Steve Williams were chosen...
...Beijing dominated the headlines instead: North Korea agreed to disable its flagship nuclear reactor, disclose all its nuclear facilities by year's end and allow U.S. inspectors to make sure the job was done. In return, Washington agreed to consider taking North Korea off its list of countries that sponsor terrorism, one of Pyongyang's key demands. "It's certainly good news," says Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum CSIS, a Honolulu-based think tank. "If by the end of December the three facilities at Yongbyon are disabled to the point that it would take a year...
...deal, brokered by China, the price for North Korea's denuclearization is the U.S. taking regime change off the table and offering security guarantees and the phased normalization of economic and political relations with a regime currently on the U.S. list of nations sponsoring terrorism. Kim Jong Il's odious regime will thus survive (unless or until it collapses under its own weight) as the price for making the region considerably safer. A compromise, then, but as many diplomatic observers had long warned, the only deal possible to avoid confrontation...