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...team did make a few disturbing discoveries, which Bush seized on as sufficient proof that Saddam was "a danger to the world" and that the war was justified. Kay's team discovered a vial hidden in a scientist's home containing a biological agent, as well as evidence that in 2001 Saddam paid $10 million in an effort to buy prohibited missile technology from North Korea. (The equipment was never delivered.) Kay also said an Iraqi scientist had been shot and another Iraqi killed after cooperating with inspectors, although that claim was news to a former official in Iraq...
...that caused Harvard to suspend its research into hereditary links in a range of diseases. Since the program ended in 1998, four separate inquiries by both Chinese and American review boards have cleared Harvard (and two cooperating Chinese universities) of wrongdoing, save a few minor procedural lapses. A Chinese scientist from the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) who looked into the case also found no evidence of malpractice; all the peasants he spoke to said they gave informed consent...
...China fanning an old, seemingly dead controversy? Timing has a lot to do with it; Harvard scientists were preparing to restart the project. Xenophobia from China's old-guard establishment is a factor too. According to another scientist at CASS who has closely followed the case: "There are some senior leaders in the government who are unhappy about international institutes doing research in China." In nationalistic China, politics trump science...
...Batman series, a role made famous by Eartha Kitt in the '60s TV show and reinvented by a neoprene-clad Michelle Pfeiffer in 1992. Berry's leather cat suit for the 2004 film is "very bare, very urban, very downtown," she says. Her character, Patience Price, is a scientist at a cosmetics company who transforms into Catwoman--or should we say Sex Kitten?--to take on her nefarious boss, played by Sharon Stone. Benjamin Bratt as a detective is the love interest for Berry's Catwoman, who is both villainess and heroine. "She's not Superman," Berry says...
...intention of ever picking up a drawing pencil again. This is the first time in months he has seen his downtown Seattle office, which his business-manager wife and assistant use to filter the paperwork needed to pump out Far Side greeting cards. Larson, whose surreal, pothead-meets-scientist take on humans' overestimation of their species made cartoons cool, prefers his nondrawing, noncelebrated existence. "Life is good," he says, sitting at a wooden conference table, holding an antique specimen jar of chattering-teeth hand puppets, momentarily optimistic before reverting to his trademark deadpan form. "I probably have cancer...