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...They have never told the truth," complains a senior Pentagon official. In fact, the truth about the production of biological killers is hard to come by. The techniques involved in turning out bioweapons are essentially "World War II-type science," says Raymond Zilinskas, a biologist at the University of Maryland, who participated in two U.N. inspection tours in Iraq. He says the mixing of poisons can be carried out by technicians with only modest scientific training using ordinary commercial equipment. The fermenters and centrifuges used every day in dairies, wineries and pharmaceutical houses, for example, can be quickly converted...
...Raymond Street resident reported that between Nov. 20 and Nov. 24 an unknown person cut a hose going to her fish pond, killing all the fish. Previously, someone had flooded the pond...
...collection In a Marine Light, Raymond Carver dedicates one of the poems, "The Projectile," to Murakami: "We sipped tea/Politely musing on possible reasons for the success of my books in your country/ Slipping into talk about pain and humiliation you find occurring, and reoccurring in my stories/ And that element of sheer chance." Carver's verse easily applies to Murakami. Although Murakami deals with a larger terrain, he illuminates both man's condition and an entire nation's with unforgettable style...
Please give the Harvard skaters who performed in the event the recognition and respect they so richly deserve. Eliot House junior Jaclyn Ward, Eliot House sophomore Lori Sonderegger and first-year Megan Raymond all deserve a huge hand for their wonderful performances this weekend...
Murakami--a cool 48-year-old who once ran a jazz bar, has translated John Irving, Truman Capote and Raymond Carver into Japanese and recently taught at Princeton--has been perfectly positioned to serve as the voice of hip, Westernized Japan. His Norwegian Wood (note the Beatles reference) sold more than 2 million copies around the globe. Yet none of his earlier books prepare one for his massive new The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Knopf; 611 pages; $25.95), which digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's recent past to explain the weightless, desultory disconnections of a virtual society...