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...nukes-based Star Wars program--a technology so complex that many scientists thought it impossible to build. Even so, the mere threat forced the Soviet Union to try designing its own, a costly decision some analysts believe hastened the U.S.S.R.'s collapse. By the time Teller died in Palo Alto, Calif., last week, at 95, he had few friends in the scientific community. Yet he defended to the end his early backing of the bomb. "What was at stake," he told TIME in 2001, "was the real possibility that the Nazis would govern the world or, a few years later...
Some companies are making progress with vaccines and treatments. Anacor Pharmaceuticals, a Palo Alto, Calif., start-up launched in 2001 with $21.6 million of Pentagon and venture-capital money, is conducting animal tests for antibiotics to treat anthrax and other bioterrorism agents. And DynPort, a company based in Frederick, Md., has developed a faster-acting anthrax vaccine that by next year is expected to complete Phase I clinical trials, in which a substance is tested on healthy volunteers to evaluate its safety in increased doses. Current anthrax vaccines require 18 injections over six months. That's too slow to defend...
...same, "the ports and sea cargo are our most vulnerable areas right now," says Lester Boeh, a vice president of Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, Calif. Varian produces high-energy X-ray systems that the company says can penetrate 17 inches of steel, giving customs inspectors a view of what's hidden behind the thick walls of a cargo container. Another company, NucSafe, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is producing radiation sensors that determine whether suspicious items within a cargo container might be dangerous. The scanners irradiate the cargo, and NucSafe's sensors read the "signature" that is sent back...
...Play Groups, which opened in 1993 and is run by former school psychologist Andrew Cohen and social worker Sandra Greenbaum, has seen its enrollment rise from 30 to 80 kids in the past two years. Ginny Strock, co-owner of FriendSmarts, which runs social-skills groups in and around Palo Alto, Calif., says her practice has grown fivefold since it began in 1996. "Parents and teachers are realizing that these skills are as important as knowing how to read and that with coaching and lots of practice, kids can improve significantly," says Strock...
...time when there was no ongoing civil war, no uprising, no massacres. The situation was quite different in Bosnia and Kosovo: our troops ended years of bloodshed and prevented many more people from being killed, even though the conflict was not a direct threat to American interests. Laura Chiu Palo Alto...