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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Drug for All Bugs | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

Nearly 30 students met to brainstorm ways for the IOP to use its clout to combat the widespread youth apathy they described as a national political crisis—a shift they said would not strain the IOP’s student and financial resources...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IOP Fancies National Focus | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...said. But the Chancellor has been attacked in recent weeks for violating a key election pledge by raising taxes; going back on a second promise could be disastrous. Pacifist members of the Green Party, part of his ruling coalition, have warned that government support for an Iraq resolution would strain relations between rank-and-file Greens and party leaders, as well as relations between the Greens and Schröder's Social Democrats. Still, Schröder is keen to patch things up with Washington. He has agreed to allow U.S. forces to use bases in Germany and German airspace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 1/5/2003 | See Source »

...because on Sept. 11 it spilled out of its natural confines and into metropolitan America. With no legitimate channels for political discourse, Arabs have suffered from what Queen Rania of Jordan calls a "hope gap." For some, that gap has been filled by a passionate commitment to a superfundamentalist strain of Islam, one that visits no sanction against indiscriminate violence in its name. To hope to combat the threat from such violence, it is not enough to toughen up the defense of the American homeland. What is needed, rather, is a Wilsonian project to assist the development of peace, democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Saving the World | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...York Times first reported last week, the CIA is investigating the possibility that a Russian scientist, Nelli Maltseva, ferried a nasty strain of smallpox from the Research Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow to Iraq in 1990. She died two years ago.The allegation caused quite a kerfuffle in Russia. Maltseva's daughter Natalia, a cardiologist, has threatened to sue the newspaper for having "blackened her mother's reputation." The institute's current director, Vitali Zverev, says the last time Maltseva handled smallpox was in 1982, which was also the last time she traveled abroad--to Finland, not Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smallpox Scenario | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

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