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...mustard, which was Saddam Hussein's poison gas of choice. (He deployed it against Iraq's Kurds and stockpiled it for use on coalition troops.) The U.S. Army has asked Schultz and his company, Quick-Med Technologies of Gainesville, Fla., to develop a dressing that could be used to treat sulfur-mustard blisters. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense has ordered up $1 million worth of research into a mustard-gas ointment. "It's all the same technology," says Schultz. "It's just adapted for different uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epidemiology: Forging the Future: Microbe-Busting Bandages | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...Foods, her local supermarket. Specifically, she dropped by a tiny clinic nestled beside the store's pharmacy, just across from the cigarette counter. There, behind a frosted-glass partition, a nurse practitioner examined Hillesheim, typing her vital signs and symptoms into a computer before giving her a prescription to treat a sinus infection. The visit took 20 minutes and cost $59. Hillesheim forked over $25, the co-pay required by her insurer. "You don't have to plan your day around this doctor appointment," she says. "You just think, 'O.K., I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get a Checkup In Aisle 3 | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...experience would typically make about $144,000 a year, a Pentagon official said. In 1999 congressional testimony on funding for substance-abuse treatment, Smith revealed that he is an addiction specialist. "It has been my honor, pleasure and pain to work in the field of addiction medicine and treat alcoholics and addicts for 27 years," he said. He supplied a gushy blurb (along with one by Aerosmith's Steven Tyler) for The Harder They Fall, a 2005 book on celebrities who beat addiction that is promoted on the web site of the renowned Hazelden clinic. "Read this book!" Dr. Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Congress's Shrink? | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

...questions can be fully answered. And as always, the most valuable evidence will be the earthly remains of the ancient people themselves. In one 10-day session, Kennewick Man has added immeasurably to anthropologists' store of knowledge, and the next round of study is already under way. If scientists treat those bones with respect and Native American groups acknowledge the importance of unlocking their secrets, the mystery of how and when the New World was populated may finally be laid to rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Were the First Americans? | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...Qahtani. "It would be an outrage if evidence being used to hold prisoners was extracted by unconscionable methods and that fact did not come to light in a court of law." For the Pentagon's part, a spokesperson told TIME that "it is longstanding Department of Defense policy to treat all detainees humanely." The detailed interrogation log of al-Qahtani seems to make clear that at the very least that policy has not always been followed and that the definition of humane treatment is up for debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive: '20th Hijacker' Claims That Torture Made Him Lie | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

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