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...major obstacle to controlling the spread of these weapons is that even medium-size countries can build them using domestic industries and imported "dual-use" equipment -- high-tech items that have civilian as well as military applications. Last year, says Kenneth Timmerman, a specialist in Middle Eastern security issues, Germany sold a total of $5 billion worth of goods to Iran. Japan sold Tehran nearly $3 billion worth and the U.S. shipped almost $1 billion. Much of the trade involved "dual use" items...
...ventilators, victims can quickly suffocate. Unlike most respiratory illnesses, which tend to strike infants or the elderly, who have immature or weakened immune systems, this one primarily attacks the young and healthy. "The pattern is different than anything I've ever seen," says Dr. Frederick Koster, an infectious-disease specialist at University Hospital in Albuquerque. The latest fatality was a 13-year-old Navajo girl, who collapsed after dancing at a school graduation party at Red Rock State Park outside Gallup. "I will see that scene for the rest of my life," says Sammy Trujillo, a park manager. "Her mother...
Investigators cannot dismiss the possibility that they are dealing with a new killer, given the emergence of such ailments as Legionnaires' disease, toxic-shock syndrome and AIDS over the past two decades. Modern life is constantly creating new opportunities for microbes, warns author and infectious-disease specialist Dr. Richard Krause of the National Institutes of Health. Legionnaires', he notes, developed because air-conditioning ducts created a new breeding ground for bacteria; toxic shock was linked with the introduction of highly absorbent tampons and AIDS with population shifts and changing sexual mores. At week's end investigators were focusing...
...Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department will gain Professor James Russel, a specialist in the history and culture of Mesopotamia...
...tutorial studies four cases, directed by both a policy specialist and a scientist. This year, the class analyzed wetlands, toxicology and risk analysis, ozone depletion and deforestation...