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Alexander Litvinenko. Lugovoi is accused of poisoning Litvinenko, a former KGB operative who became a prominent dissident opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the radioactive metalloid polonium 210. The CPS's move, although welcomed by Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and officially backed by the British government, injected fresh toxin into Russian-U.K. relations already weakened by the affair. British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett told Russia's ambassador in London, Yuri Fedotov, that the U.K. expects "full cooperation." But Russia's own public prosecutor responded that the country's constitution does not permit it to extradite Russian citizens...
...researcher Serge Przedborski, drawing a parallel between crime-ridden areas and cellular environments. “What we found was that in fact, those normal motor neurons were dying due to the aspect of being surrounded by these mutant [support cells].” Though the identity of the toxin produced by these cells is still a mystery, the researchers are optimistic about the prospects of discovering it and finding drugs to combat it. “You’re looking at anywhere between three and four years,” Przedborski said. Lou Gehrig’s disease...
...ugly, and before it started terrorizing innocent Koreans, it was a tadpole. Then a careless American doctor at a local military base ordered hundreds of gallons of formaldehyde dumped into the Han River. The creature swallowed the toxin; now the thing is 30 ft. long, has 10 legs, looks like an angry Muppet and is itching for mischief. U.S. scientists have yet more dire news: the beast is the host for a deadly virus that could wipe out everyone in Seoul or-- dare we say it--the world...
...moment of high drama, but it paled beside what happened next. Last Thursday, Litvinenko himself died in a London hospital, after having ingested a "major dose" of the radioactive toxin polonium-210 that destroyed his immune system, according to Britain's Health Protection Agency. Scotland Yard said that traces of polonium-210 - which is so rare and volatile that producing quantities large enough to kill requires access to a high-security nuclear laboratory - were found at a sushi restaurant called Itsu in Piccadilly where Litvinenko had eaten lunch on the day he got sick. Traces of the isotope were also...
Whoever did kill Litvinenko wasn't an amateur. British authorities announced last Friday that he had ingested a radioactive toxin, polonium 210, and that police had found traces of it in three locations: a sushi bar where Litvinenko had eaten lunch, a hotel he had visited on the same day and his home. Polonium 210 is so rare and volatile that the assassin would have needed access to a high-security nuclear laboratory to obtain it. Moscow denies that it had anything to do with the death. At a meeting with European officials in Helsinki, Vladimir Putin called the death...