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...fear, anger and a great deal of concern over what's happening in Africa and what could happen in other parts of the world," says Dr. Robert Gallo, director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland's Biotechnology Institute. Gallo is credited, along with French scientist Luc Montagnier, with pinpointing the link between HIV and AIDS. "I don't want to say there was pessimism, but there was a realization that a lot of the critical issues - like providing follow-up studies and continuing care to the neediest countries - are about policy...
Last week FBI agents searched the Frederick, Md., apartment and Ocala, Fla., storage facility of Steven Hatfill, 48, a biodefense scientist who seems to match Rosenberg's profile. According to former colleagues, Hatfill has been vaccinated for anthrax, worked for the Army institute from 1997 to '99, and last summer--in a potentially fatal blow to his career--lost his government security clearance. Moreover, in 1999 Hatfill commissioned a study of a hypothetical terrorist attack in which anthrax is sent through the mail. He has another odd link to the case: the anthrax-filled letters sent to Senators Patrick Leahy...
...next round of party elections in case anyone challenges him. Another theory postulates the opposite: Mahathir has no faith in Abdullah and wants to give other players enough time to jockey for power. "No one believes (Abdullah) is a serious contender for the No. 1 post," says political scientist P. Ramasamy. Yet another view states that the Prime Minister has been forced to stay on by "Mahathir-dependent forces," namely business interests that have traditionally relied on his backing. Whatever the real reason, the man himself isn't saying anything, having left for a vacation in Europe. Mahathir, a physician...
...latest greedfest is Sam Waksal, an immunologist who turned into a dazzling biotechnology entrepreneur. In 1984 he founded ImClone, a little-known company until it made headlines for an apparent success with a cancer treatment called Erbitux in 1999. Waksal, 54, was always as much salesman as scientist and employed his reputation and charm as a ladder into elite circles that included home-decor guru Stewart, Mick Jagger, actress Mariel Hemingway, financier Carl Icahn and Dr. John Mendelsohn, the cancer-drug pioneer and former Enron board member. Waksal's eclectic posse combined science and celebrity with stock-market speculation...
Enter Stitch, a killing machine from the planet Turo. An unholy mix of E.T. and the Zuni fetish doll that scared the wits out of Karen Black in the never-to-be-forgotten TV movie Trilogy of Terror, Stitch was created by a mad scientist--or, as he prefers to be known, an "evil genius"--who gave the creature only one instinct: "to destroy everything it touches." Stitch escapes to Earth, a primitive planet that the Turans have allowed to exist as a "protected wildlife preserve to repopulate the mosquito." Stitch wanders into a dog pound and is adopted...