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Imagine this scenario: terrorists release an airborne, antibiotic-resistant strain of anthrax in a major European capital. Without vaccines or antitoxins to reduce fatalities, the public is largely unprotected. But the government quickly dispenses a new nasal spray that puts people's immune systems into overdrive, protecting them not only against anthrax but a whole range of pathogens, including many of the deadly bioterrorist agents that governments believe are most likely to be used. It sounds farfetched, but last week's ricin arrests in London show that the possibility of a bioterror attack is not fantasy. British Prime Minister Tony...
...skits, ancient gags and a man who often dressed as a woman. Suddenly everybody had to have a television--all because a middle-aged comic with manic energy and a desperate need to please was making a fool of himself, live, in America's living rooms. Subtle as a spray of seltzer, Berle dominated the young medium's ratings for years, at his peak winning 80% of the viewing audience. Eventually, TV grew up--anyway, it grew older --and by the mid-'50s Berle's innocent vulgarity had given way to more domestic, less frantic fare. But his ghost still...
Undeterred, the Dekes tried again in 1978, this time developing a device that would spray-paint “MIT” in the field. Once again luck was not in their favor as a group of Brown students burnt a “B” onto the Harvard Stadium turf with lye a few weeks before the planned prank...
...night before Halloween and two days before my still-unfinished Harvard application is due. The next morning, our entire senior class will show up to school in costume. While some are donning Backstreet Boys and Baywatch outfits, my friends and I are making our purple capes and spray painting our broomsticks silver. With the anxiety of senior year upon me, Harry is even more bewitching. The application waits until my costume is done...
...wait for our food, and discuss the décor. Patricio comments that bright colors and multiple mirrors make the place look like a Discovery Zone. I concur. I comment on the load-bearing pillar in the middle of the dining area that seems to have been decorated with spray-painted pieces of scrap metal. It looks like something exploded at the steel mill. I ask Patricio if this type of decoration is common practice in Mexico. He ignores...