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Getting an HIV test has never been easier. With the new OraQuick Advance, a health professional simply swabs the inside of a person's mouth along the upper and lower gums and then inserts the stick into a vial of solution that tests for antibodies to the HIV-1 and HIV-2 virus strains. Within 20 minutes, the results appear on the stick. (Two reddish-purple lines indicate a positive result.) The OraQuick's accuracy rate: over...
...brained Big Bird, steering with one hand and juggling multicolored case files with the other, head swiveling constantly to scan the sidewalks. He drops by a project tower to do a "vertical patrol," which means taking the elevator to the roof and trotting down 16 condom-and-crack-vial-strewn flights to the ground. A crowd of teenagers loiters in front of the entrance. "Let's see how many of these guys break when they see us," Conlon says as he gets out of the car. None do, though we get a catcall of "federal agent!," a reference to Conlon...
There was no way to be sure what was in the mysterious vial that arrived in Dr. Don Catlin's Los Angeles lab last June. All he knew was that he had been told to find out what it was--and if it was what he suspected, it could mean big trouble for a lot of people...
That trouble arrived earlier this month when the Department of Justice announced that it was charging four San Francisco--area men with 42 counts of conspiring to distribute anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs--the charges stemming, in part, from what Catlin found in the vial. Things heated up further last week when the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco released affidavits from people involved in the case declaring that Greg Anderson, personal trainer for home-run king Barry Bonds, had given steroids to Major League Baseball players--though all the defendants have pleaded not guilty...
Drawing the chemical is only the first step. Next Catlin had to build it, which he did, precisely following the schematic he and his team had drawn. Next, they ran it back through the chromatographer. It perfectly matched what they had been sent in the vial...