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...Bloc” and “ensure that troublemakers did not infiltrate the march for peace.” There is a sense that Europe is over the Genoa bump. But the violence in Genoa was not solely the work of a few agent provocateurs. There is a nastier calculus at work when half-a-million civilians try to stop a meeting defended by 10,000 military police...
...generation of terrorists taking their places. Draining the swamp, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld called it, rather than only swatting the mosquitoes. Plenty of mosquitoes have been swatted, of course. But there are plenty more buzzing around, waiting to pick their targets. More importantly, perhaps, the swamp is looking nastier than ever. Hostility to the U.S. is more widespread and more intense than ever in bin Laden's traditional recruiting grounds, fueled by Washington's moves against Iraq and ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence - it's hardly any coincidence that he makes those two issues the key talking points of his latest propaganda...
...fails to ensure immunity from subsequent attacks. Worse, it can actually increase the odds you'll get DHF should you be twice-bitten by dengue-carrying mozzies. The virus comes in four strains, and when antibodies created by one type interact with antibodies created by another type, dengue gets nastier. "This is what is called antibody enhancement phenomenon," says Peiris. It's why a vaccine has so far eluded scientists. "The worry is that if you immunize someone without immunizing them against all four types, it might actually be worse...
FOOD Telling Buyers to Kiss Off There's trouble in chocolate town, and it's turning nastier than a pack of Oompa Loompas gone bad. Hershey, the largest U.S. confectioner, is for sale. Switzerland's Nestlé would like to buy it - and leap from 7% of the U.S. market to 38%. The sale would reverse the common pattern of a beloved European firm being snapped up by a rapacious American rival. Founded by Milton Hershey in 1894, the company educated orphans and built an eponymous town; the charitable trust that owns Hershey still educates 1,200 children...
Nuclear detonations release a hail of charged particles, common among them radioactive iodine. This is bad news for the human thyroid, which soaks up iodine like a sponge. One way to prevent the problem is to dose the body with potassium iodide, which saturates the gland and prevents the nastier form of the stuff from being absorbed. It's simple--but of limited value. First, little if any iodine is given off by a so-called dirty bomb--radioactive waste wrapped around a conventional explosive--which is the device a terrorist would be most likely to manage. Second, even...