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...spent the last couple days of my spring break last week in Frederick, Md., as a part of the 2003 Maryland’s Junior Miss program. This year’s participants were predictably cute, spunky and sweet. They had the requisite beaming grins and bouncing ponytails. None of them seemed particularly catty or driven to win, although one girl lingered behind after rehearsals to grill me for tips on the interview. Last Saturday night I gave a goodbye speech, performed my talent one last time, and gave this year’s winner her silver medallion...
...rapidly vaccinate contacts after an exposure might be more effective in controlling the spread of smallpox than a program aimed at vaccinating millions of Americans prior to an event. Dr. Foege, who was director of the CDC during the time that smallpox was finally eradicated, and J. Michael Lane, MD, MPH, former director of the smallpox eradication program, have stated that aggressive identification and vaccination of contacts was the strategy that ultimately eradicated smallpox as a naturally occurring illness, while mass vaccination had failed to produce such a result...
Carson spent publication day in her home in Silver Spring, Md., preparing for speeches and a book tour, according to biographer Linda Lear. In a letter to a friend, Carson called Silent Spring "something I believed in so deeply that there was no other course; nothing that ever happened made me even consider turning back." When the book appeared, industry critics assailed "the hysterical woman," but it became an instant best seller with lasting impact. It spurred the banning of DDT in the U.S., the passage of major environmental laws and eventually a global treaty to phase out 12 pesticides...
These beliefs are not the work of thoughtless gunslingers. Wolfowitz, like many of his colleagues, couldn't be less of a cowboy. (Not many cattle in Chevy Chase, Md.) These are men whose shoes are more likely to be penny loafers than hand-tooled boots, who speak foreign languages (even French!) and are at home in rarefied academic environments. They know what they think. In a recent interview Wolfowitz told TIME, "I believe this country is what it stands for, more than anything else. If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest...
...armed forces, taking them away from fronts that seem to be developing constantly. Amid rising tensions with North Korea and the constant threat of terrorist attacks, how would the military be able to operate the way it must if thousands of troops were in Iraq? DAN ROSEN Owings Mills, Md...