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...agents on a failed attempt to kill a Hamas leader, KHALED MESHAL, on a commercial street in the Jordanian capital of Amman, prompting KING HUSSEIN to threaten to sever relations. Answering the charges of recklessness, an Israeli official says that precisely to avoid embarrassing the King, Mossad chose to spray a toxin into Meshal's ear. Says the source: "The decision to act was taken based on the 100% success rate of this method, which left no fingerprints whatsoever. If they had done it in the right way, no one would have noticed." The toxin was based on the drug...
...development of genetic engineering, however, that researchers were able to build synthetic ICAM-1 convincing enough to act as a decoy. With that in hand, Dr. Turner and his team recruited 177 volunteers who were willing to catch a cold for science. Half the volunteers (the experimental group) were sprayed with the BIRR 4 solution. The others (the control group) were given a simple saline spray. All the volunteers were deliberately infected by placing droplets of active rhinoviruses in their nasal passages...
About two-thirds of the control group and half the experimental group got sick. The volunteers who received the BIRR 4 spray seven hours before they were exposed fared pretty well, often reporting only a mild case of the sniffles. Even those who waited 12 hours after exposure before taking the decoy compound experienced the same protective benefits...
Downs' name must have been pricey. Chasing the ever elusive chimera of a prize, she ordered all sorts of overpriced junk: flimsy telephone-answering machines, tennis bracelets, money clips, hair spray and what was supposed to be two mink coats. "They looked like they'd been made with rat skins," says Downs. "I just put the stuff in a room and closed the door...
Apparently, when wardens capture a bear that has been troubling tourists, they try to condition the bear against such behavior by setting off firecrackers and spraying the bear with pepper spray. While doing that, the wardens costume themselves as tourists, since bears in Banff National Park tend to stay away from wardens, whom they recognize by their uniforms...