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...same time kill most of it, and the rest would not do well in open air and sunlight. In any case, missiles may not be necessary. The virus spreads so efficiently from person to person that an agent--presumably immunized--with an aerosolized batch of smallpox in a subway station or a small building could easily seed an epidemic. Because the virus is tiny, it's relatively easy to aerosolize. But there's no evidence that Iraq has developed the capability...

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

...subjects of winning collections have varied widely in the past, ranging from East Asian cooking and artifacts relating to the Berlin subway system to comic books, children’s book illustrations, aviation dictionaries and lepidoptery...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Book Junkies Collect Prizes, Too | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

...vida de cuadritos," or the hard life, the popularity of these books has expanded throughout the Americas. Exclusively en espanol, they remain tantalizing yet inscrutable to a gringo like me. Wondering what they were all about, with a cocked eyebrow I have thumbed through them at New York subway newsstands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living La Vida Perversa | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

...money--and calories--are in a la carte, branded items, which schools often mark up 50% to 100%, and sodas from vending machines. Consider the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, which managed to entice students and their pocketbooks into the cafeteria by offering Chick-fil-A, Subway and Papa John's products. While Northside's federal lunches sell for $1.75, a single 7-in. slice of Papa John's goes for $2, more than twice what the district pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flunking Lunch | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

Dollars aren't the only obstacle. The state of Illinois last spring tried to crack down on schools in Oak Park that order in lunch from McDonald's, Domino's, Subway, KFC or Tasty Dog once or twice a week as part of a lucrative fund raiser sponsored by the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO). But parents fought the state for a special waiver; in exchange, they made some minimal concessions, such as serving pretzels instead of chips alongside the hot dogs. "You could make it a little more health conscious if you skipped the fries and put an apple [with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flunking Lunch | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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