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...public now knows more about anthrax than it ever wanted to know, information about smallpox is less ubiquitous. Looking for answers, TIME.com turned to Dr. Lee Harrison, a medical epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, also works with the Biomedical Security Institute, a joint venture of the University of Pittsburgh?s Graduate School of Public Health and Carnegie Mellon University...
Until recently, corporate America would never consider cutting the salaries of many to avoid cutting the jobs of a few. But these days, a wide range of businesses, from San Francisco ad agencies and high-tech outfits like Agilent to steelmakers in Pittsburgh, are breaking the taboo. "We did a 7% layoff that probably would have been 15% had we not done some creative things," says Charles Morgan, 58, CEO of the database-management firm Acxiom, of Conway, Ark. In April the company made a 5% reduction in salaries for people earning more than $25,000, then gave stock options...
This year’s Harvard recruiting class included two NHL draftees. Defenseman Noah Welch, a Brighton native, was a second round selection of Pittsburgh. Forward Tom Cavanagh, son of three-time Crimson All-American Joe Cavanagh ’71, was a sixth round selection of San Jose...
...president tell them it?s safe to fly again. But a possibility nonetheless. In the hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush did give the OK to down any commercial planes that imperiled Washington, and for a while, news reports had it that the plane that went down near Pittsburgh that day had been shot out of the sky by the Air Force. (It turned out to be the efforts of passengers that brought the plane down short of its target...
...then did the passengers on the plane that went down near Pittsburgh decide to resist the hijackers and prevent them from completing their mission? Because they knew: their relatives had told them by cell phone that the World Trade Center had already been attacked by hijacked planes. They were armed with final awareness of the nature of the evil they faced...