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...more quickly and prolong protection. The Pasteur Institute is working on its own approach to improving anthrax vaccines. The new French treatment could provide better protection because in addition to neutralizing toxins, it can stop bacteria from multiplying at the early stages of disease, according to Michèle Mock, team leader on the Institute's anthrax vaccine project. The current anthrax vaccine only neutralizes toxins. The same is true for a vaccine against tularemia, or rabbit fever, a bacterium that can cause fatal illness. With funding from the U.S. government, the University of Ume? in Sweden is trying...
...leaving a store not long ago when he stopped to chat with one of the many senior citizens who work as greeters. They are a fearless lot, and the old gent teased the boss with a question: "Did you give everyone a big raise?" Scott returned a look of mock horror. "Are you kidding me?" he said. "This is Wal-Mart...
With the recent onslaught of winter weather, the Square has once more regained its New England character. But one thing is noticeably absent this January: No longer do scantily clad mannequins mock us from the windows of Pacific Sunwear...
...heard a lot about nostalgia this year: the vogue for vintage blue jeans (or mock-vintage blue jeans at premium prices); the continuing popularity of retro design elements (like '30s club chairs and surfaces "distressed" to look antique); punk and garage-rock revivalists like the White Stripes, the Hives, the Strokes and the Vines. The Bachelor, with its retro-style dating theme, was just one among many nostalgia-oriented television shows. There were reunions of The Cosby Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H and numerous others (for God's sake, even Alf made a comeback...
...weapons inspections. Then they concentrate in a single field, like vaccine production. They are trained in how to spot anomalies in facilities that can have both a benign civilian use and a more sinister military one. Team members are also taught how to use the latest weapons-detection gadgets. Mock inspections require them to encounter fake Iraqi officials hiding fake long-range missiles, say, or fake mustard...