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...such scrutiny? Because USAMRIID handles the deadliest pathogens known to man, including Ebola, Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever--and, of course, anthrax. It was at Fort Detrick that the U.S. stockpile of biological weapons was manufactured in the 1960s, and at USAMRIID that research into deadly germs was concentrated for the next three decades...
Then came nature's counterattack: in one wave after another, HIV, Ebola, Marburg virus, Lassa fever, Legionnaire's disease, hantavirus, hepatitis C--in all, at least 30 newly identified pathogens over the past two decades--swooped down upon different population groups. Most of them came out of the newly inhabited and exploited rain forests of Africa and South America, making an inter-species jump from animals to humans...
...data. Even if the standard for authenticity were agreement between the Gospels, there is less of that than one might imagine: the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan are just two of several parables that appear in only one version. By 1926, Rudolf Bultmann of Germany's University of Marburg, the foremost Protestant scholar in the field, threw up his hands: he called for a halt to inquiries regarding the Jesus of history. So unreliable were the Gospel accounts that "we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus." He advised good Christian scholars to concentrate...
Ebola is just one of several viruses to have emerged from the jungle in the past few decades; others include Lassa and Marburg in Africa, and Sabia, Junin and Machupo in South America. But the most insidious of all, of course, is the AIDS virus, HIV. It probably originated in Africa as well, but unlike Ebola, it was ideally suited to spread around the globe. It kills so slowly and leaves victims without symptoms for so long that they can infect many others before dying...
...McCarthy, then a 32-year-old short-story writer, reviewer and wife of critic Edmund Wilson, was making the most of it. She had come to the red-hot center by way of Seattle and Vassar, class of '33. Arendt, a German Jew, had been an outstanding student at Marburg University, where she was the lover of her mentor, the philosopher Martin Heidegger. She arrived in the U.S. in 1941, escaping probable death in the Holocaust...