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...such scrutiny? Because USAMRIID handles the deadliest pathogens known to man, including Ebola, Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever--and, of course, anthrax. It was at Fort Detrick that the U.S. stockpile of biological weapons was manufactured in the 1960s, and at USAMRIID that research into deadly germs was concentrated for the next three decades...
When I signed up for a hot air balloon tour of Australia's Hunter Valley, famed for its wines, I had visions of a romantic Loire Valley-style adventure transplanted Down Under: festively colored, majestic balloons awaiting me with jets of golden flame roaring into their bellies and liveried waiters serving flutes of champagne. But this is no-frills, no-nonsense Oz, after all, and visitors to the valley can expect, instead, 4:30 a.m. wake-ups for the predawn launch, a dress code of jeans, caps and collared shirts to protect heads and necks from the heat...
...social relations are evolving slowly, urbanization is happening in a hurry. Some 1.7 million people now live on the Wasatch Front, an almost uninterrupted suburban strip along the I-15 highway from Ogden through Salt Lake down to Provo. The entire valley often has a blanket of brown air hanging over it, the legacy of years of unchecked growth. Now the consensus on unlimited growth is being challenged-from within the state...
...Three involved only four hours of walking. First, a zigzag up over the Barranco Wall to around 13,000 feet, and then down again to a well-protected valley a few hundred feet lower. We were climbing around the mountain now, from west to east. Some members of our party had felt the affects of altitude on the first night. A few more the next day. But usually after a night's rest the headaches and nausea were gone...
...addition to his expertise in political science, Dawson worked as an engineer and programmer for nine years in Silicon Valley...