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That little speck of rock in the harbor of Dakar, Senegal, is the black-American equivalent of Auschwitz or Treblinka, a blood-drenched monument to a genocidal past that all too often is ignored. On it stands the House of Slaves, where tens of thousands of Africans were herded into cramped holding pens to be fattened up for the Middle Passage to a life of slavery in the New World. Their last contact with the African motherland came at the Door of No Return, where they were whipped across a narrow gangplank to the slave ships...
...Barely a speck of leather is to be found among the front-room group...
...name. But the glamour of a name can only sustain us for so long--and in this case it fades during our first year. In some ways it is necessary. Only by treating Harvard as our own College, and dismissing the fact that our time here is a mere speck in its history, can we take advantage of the opportunities...
...coveralls transferred them to a large production fermenter, where they bloomed into huge quantities. Iraq now admits to brewing more than 2,000 gal. of anthrax, but American experts think the true amount was three times that. A fatal dose is, says a U.S. Defense official, "smaller than a speck of dust, something you wouldn't even see." In a final step, the Iraqis refrigerated the muddy mixture; it could be loaded into a warhead shortly before launch...
...made a serendipitous discovery." Dr. Karine Gabrielian, a physician on the team, had been struggling to fashion the thinnest possible slivers of fibrinogen. Checking on her samples one morning, she found that some of the slivers had curled up into spheres, each the size of a coarsely ground speck of pepper. Gabrielian added several of these odd-looking constructs to a culture dish that also contained fetal RPE cells. Within 24 hours, the cells attached themselves to these motes of material and started to grow. Then the researchers transplanted the spheres into the eyes of rabbits, positioning them just beneath...