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...faults of the show lie mainly in David Thompson's book, which is too perfunctory with the minor characters and can't really bring off the couple's Act II decline into guilt and self-destruction. Bierko and Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost...
...about the matter. "We cannot put him out at each new development," a senior Administration official told TIME. "And there were a lot of developments this week." Bush doesn't want to be announcing the results of each nasal swab; that's what Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Homeland Security czar Tom Ridge are meant to do. But Wednesday they were saying little and nothing, respectively, so Bush's silence just compounded the concern about who knew what and who was in charge and where this all was heading. The anthrax incidents presented both a health threat...
...major city could cause 3 million casualties. Another report estimated that a smallpox release could kill 40 million. But Bush's budget this year allocated just $345 million for bioterrorism preparedness. Congress had passed legislation asking for $1.4 billion, and now that number is considered too low. Last week Thompson publicly asked for an extra $1.5 billion, and the final number could be more than three times that. The money would be used to boost drug stockpiles, train local health workers to respond to an emergency and improve the testing facilities at labs. Many today have no fax machine...
...accelerated the delivery of a pre-existing order for 40 million more doses of the vaccine for the national pharmaceutical stockpile to add to the 15.4 million doses already stored at undisclosed locations. Originally due in 2004, the first doses will be delivered by next summer. HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson is also talking to four drug companies about producing 300 million more doses by next year--enough to inoculate every American. In the meantime, Thompson has also authorized researchers to determine whether diluting existing doses by five or 10 times could boost supply quickly without sacrificing the vaccine's potency...
...Reported by Hannah Beech/Dast-e-Qale, Massimo Calabresi, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington, Michael Fathers/Tashkent, Helen Gibson/London, Ghulam Hasnain/Kandahar, Terry McCarthy/Islamabad, Tim McGirk/Quetta, Paul Quinn-Judge/on the Kabul front and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar...