Word: weaponeering
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...antibiotic vancomycin, which has been used worldwide to fight off Staphylococcus and other stubborn types of bacteria for the past 30 years. Dr. Francisco Sapico, an infectious disease specialist at USC's Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, told TIME Online the possibility of losing vancomycin as a weapon against Staphylococcus is cause for concern. "It would become very serious, because there are not many other antibiotics that could be active against the organism," he said. Sapico added, however, that new medications under development in the U.S. and Europe offer hope of a new way to combat new Staphylococcus strains into...
...evidence and who has been severely criticized. In earlier testimony, however, Burmeister acknowledged one point that may stick with the jury: he found no traces of explosives in McVeigh's car or in storage facilities in Kansas, Iowa or Arizona where McVeigh allegedly kept the main ingredients for the weapon...
...teenager had contracted herpes and twice attempted suicide. After a six-month probe, the Army washed its hands of the messy affair on April 14, telling the Schapers that it had no legal responsibility for an out-of-control sergeant. But Belisle acknowledges that he brought a formidable weapon to his role as seducer. "I didn't realize how powerful the uniform is,'' a repentant Belisle told TIME. "They look up to it--and to you when you're wearing it ... We're generally a bit older, and they talk to us about everything, even having sex with their boyfriends...
...Brett Heckman, an attorney for Nathan Hall, yesterday. Hall, 18, is being prosecuted in the death of Alan Cobb, a skier with whom he collided while on the job as a ski resort employee. Prosectuors are arguing that a speeding skier is a weapon, much the same way as is a bat or a piece of wood...
...thwart what seems inevitable, Major's troops have turned to the same weapon George Bush wielded unsuccessfully against Clinton. Blair, they charge, is merely an opportunist, a leftist in middle-of-the-road campaign clothing. "With Labour taking many of our positions and all of those that are most important," says Tory strategist Andrew Cooper, "fear is all we've got left. We've got to try and cause people to worry that Tony's changes are just for show, to fear his change rather than welcome him as a nonthreatening crypto-Conservative they can comfortably take a risk...