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...chill of the cold war, the Soviet Union is said to have loaded enough germs and viruses, including smallpox, aboard intercontinental ballistic missiles targeted on the U.S. to infect an entire city, a tactic Saddam Hussein is thought to have tried to copy on a more modest scale with rocket-borne smallpox "bombs" that could hit targets up to 70 miles away. He never used them. Not that restraint has always been practiced. During World War II, Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas on Chinese and Soviet targets, while Britain plotted to kill German cattle with anthrax...
...Long anticipating it would lose its exclusive right to sell Glucophage, BMS already was working another strategy: to try to convert doctors and patients to two new formulations of the drug, Glucophage XR and Glucovance. It's a common tactic used by brand-name drugmakers as their patents near expiration - develop a slightly altered version of a drug, which is then eligible under FDA rules for at least another few years of market monopoly, and try to get users of the original drug to switch. BMS has run newspaper ads offering patients free 30 or 60-day supplies...
...city’s current tactic to prevent some rents from skyrocketing—making deals with contractors that a certain number of units in new apartment buildings be “affordable” for low-income people—is somewhat counterproductive, King says...
...convincing its people that bin Laden and terrorism are to be deplored, not celebrated. A peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians will require significant concessions from both sides, but no true peace can be formed when one party continues to view indiscriminate violence against civilians as a legitimate tactic...
...just settlement to the Palestinian problem. Unfortunately, as the events of the last year have shown, Yasir Arafat is an unreliable partner. With no one to secure a settlement with, Israel is forced to rely on her army to protect her citizens. This is not an apartheid or racist tactic; rather it is merely a reflection of reality under terrorist attack...