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Paulo federal police headquarters. A businesslike Dr. Lowell Levine, a forensic specialist from the U.S. Justice Department, stepped forward and announced the experts' unanimous conclusion: "The skeleton is that of Josef Mengele within a reasonable scientific certainty." Later, the Americans reported that they had "absolutely no doubt" of their findings...
...extremists, political violence has become a dangerous vogue. "Committing terrorism is like achieving manhood for a Shi'ite," says William Quandt, a Middle East specialist at Washington's Brookings Institution. "Everybody is scrambling to be the most militant...
...Diego Garcia in February 1973, assigned to what the FBI calls "sensitive technical communications." Next came a course in satellites at the Army Communications Electronics School in Fort Monmouth, N.J. He was sent back to Diego Garcia for a tour that ended in 1976, when he became a communications specialist aboard the carrier Constellation. Travel notes found in John Walker's home place Walker in Hong Kong in August 1977, at the same time that the Constellation, with Whitworth on it, stopped there. About a year later, Whitworth was a chief radioman aboard the supply ship Niagara Falls when...
Researchers have known for several years that TSS is caused by a toxin produced by a common and usually harmless bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus. In laboratory studies, the Harvard team, led by Infectious Disease Specialist Edward Kass, found that the bacterium produces up to 20 times as much toxin as usual in the presence of certain tampon fibers. Kass's group discovered that the fibers -- polyester foam and polyacrylate rayon -- soak up large amounts of magnesium, which is normally present in vaginal tissue and fluid. When the magnesium is removed from the bacterium's environment, the bug responds by churning...
...that the Brazilian pepper is a hardy trespasser, resistant to burning and with a proclivity for overrunning cleared land. It now covers thousands of acres along the Everglades' Atlantic and Gulf coastlines and has begun to establish itself among coast-loving mangroves. This worries Robert Doren, a research-management specialist at the park. "Many game fish and shellfish come in to feed or breed among the roots of the mangroves," he explains. "Without the mangroves, you might see the end of most of the estuarine fishery in south Florida...