Word: smallpox
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Administration officials say the criticism misses the many steps being taken to shore up the country's biodefenses. They point out that the U.S. has been stockpiling countermeasures, such as 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine. Since 2001 HHS has doled out $5.5 billion to state and local governments for bioterrorism emergency-response programs, and including BioShield, the government has spent about $18 billion on biodefense. "No matter how hard we try, some steps in the process cannot be rushed," said Stewart Simonson, assistant secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, defending BioShield's slow start before Congress in July...
...Pyongyang, flouting a ban on unauthorized contact with the North. He was pardoned by President Kim Dae Jung, but a stint in jail clearly failed to dent his taste for controversy. The Guest, the title of which is a translation of the Korean term for the imported disease of smallpox, describes what Hwang sees as the pernicious influence of "cultural imperialism" on Korea. He focuses on a massacre that took place in late 1950 in North Korea's Hwanghae Province. North Korean authorities claim this event was the work of bloodthirsty American soldiers. Hwang disputes that, arguing that...
...survivors, refugees from a civilization that had already collapsed. "Think of the fruitful impact on Europe and its descendants from contacting Asia," Mann instructs us. "Imagine the effect on these places and people from a second Asia. Along with the unparalleled loss of life, that is what vanished when smallpox came ashore...
...rule that Qianlong inspected them all at draft stage. The Manchus had ousted the last Ming Emperor, whose rule was marked by financial bankruptcy and internal rebellion. Kangxi was only 7 in 1662 when he assumed the throne from his father, the first Qing Emperor, who died in a smallpox epidemic. Surviving the contagion (with scars intact, as portraits show), Kangxi worked skillfully to identify himself with both his native tribal culture and the scholarly traditions of the Chinese. Two likenesses, commissioned when he was about 30, demonstrate his Manchu soldier?Chinese scholar balancing act. A vibrant silk hanging scroll...
...monument to Murphy's Law, the great white Batmobile that will be piloted by Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen is already two years behind its timetable and $3.6 billion over budget. Only a year ago workmen had diagnosed the ship's ailment as "smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers...