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...impossible. Iraq has also been tinkering with other methods. Before the Gulf War it had several hundred Italian-made pesticide dispensers fitted with spray nozzles for spitting out bioweapons in droplet size. In 1990 the Iraqis flight-tested a remote-controlled MiG-21 fighter mounted with a 2,200-liter belly tank and sprayer...
...didn't notice," said Trent Taylor, a third-year law student, who was drinking a bottle of Diet Coke in the Green-house. "But $1.50 is pretty expensive. I know you can get a liter of this Coke for the same price...
...nutritional approaches to increase a patient's blood count before surgery. Efforts are made to guard against unnecessary blood loss from tests, and standard blood drawings are either reduced or eliminated altogether. And since an intensive-care patient during an average stay must part with close to a liter of blood for testing--much of it unused and thrown out--microanalyzers have been developed to scrutinize tinier quantities of blood...
...could he do his best if he was drinking? A second set of analyses of his blood had confirmed the original tests taken on Aug. 31: Paul had between 1.75 and 1.87 grams of alcohol per liter of blood, nearly four times the legal blood-alcohol limit of 0.5. To that, last week, were added explosive toxicology results: Paul's blood also contained "therapeutic" amounts of fluoxetine (the generic name for the antidepressant Prozac) and trace amounts of tiapride, a drug used to treat various conditions and is sometimes prescribed to quiet symptoms of agitation and aggressiveness in patients being...
Investigators said that Henri Paul, the Ritz Hotel's number two security man, had a blood alcohol level of 1.7 grams per liter of blood ? more than three times the legal limit. Paul was not Fayed's regular driver, who was instead used as a decoy for the paparazzi that were hounding the couple...