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...BioShield hasn't transformed much of anything besides expanding the federal bureaucracy. Most of the big pharmaceutical and biotech firms want nothing to do with developing biodefense drugs. The little companies that are vying for deals say they are being stymied by an opaque and glacially slow contracting process. The one big contract that has been awarded--for 75 million doses of a next-generation anthrax vaccine--is tangled in controversy; it went to a California firm, VaxGen, which in its 10-year history has never brought a drug to market. In the scientific community, biodefense is viewed...
...pandemic is dedicated to finding better ways to make antiviral drugs and vaccines, an investment that scientists say is long overdue. Flu vaccines were being grown in chicken eggs more than 50 years ago, and that's how they're still made today. It's a painfully slow procedure that takes about nine months, with much of that time devoted to the hit-or-miss process of incubating viruses in the chicken eggs...
...Administration maintains that advances in technology since FISA was passed make the court's procedures too slow to contend with the immense flood of electronic chatter that now passes in and out of the U.S. and which the agency has much improved means of capturing and analyzing. Justice Department officials say a FISA surveillance request can take up to a week to prepare, even for some seasoned department lawyers. One of them describes the requests as being "like mortgage applications" in their complexity. "When you get a terrorist's cell phone and there are 20 numbers in it," a former...
...patterns that may point to terrorist activity. That requires sifting through a mountain of individual communications to find the one that might lead to something. Under FISA, the NSA would have to obtain a warrant for each suspect phone number. Authorities argue that the FISA process is too slow to cover a situation in which a known terrorist calls a number in the U.S. not already covered by a FISA warrant...
ANDREW MCKELVEY The FORTUNE 1000, the companies with at least 2,500 employees, by and large have stopped doing business with the newspapers. That's about a third of their total help-wanted classifieds right there. The newspapers were slow in responding. The Sunday Boston Globe in 2000 had around 100 pages of help-wanted classifieds. Now they have fewer than 25. What happened? IBM tends not to run full-page ads anymore. They spend their money online instead. That's typical...