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...days following Sept. 11, when most Americans believed the next attack would be chemical or biological, Michael Wermuth disagreed. Wermuth is a Rand analyst and head of a congressional advisory panel on terrorism, and like many experts at the time he thought the U.S. had more to fear from another conventional attack. The one thing he was certain we didn't have to worry about was the U.S. Postal Service. "The idea," he told TIME, "that someone sends a letter through the mail that you open up, and it says, 'Ha-ha, you've just been exposed to anthrax...
...party. Yet the police force suffers from poor morale, and most officers still chafe at Williams' attitude that the police are public servants rather than a repressive force. Some thoughtful cops recognize the problem. "The public has to remember that we are their police force," says homicide detective Rick Wermuth. "If they don't recover some confidence in us and return some support to us, we'll all be headed down until we sink into some lawless new wild West...
Yale, in response, took a 10-8 lead when Dave Wermuth, at 142 lbs., swamped Chris Thorne, 20-4, in a technical fall...
...greatest income yet may come from Ag 246, which was concocted-with the help of Chemist Camille Wermuth and longtime aide Dr. Bernard Weber-as an improvement on a Laborit arthritis drug. By molecular manipulation, Laborit and his colleagues created 40 variants of the arthritis medicine, then started systematically to test each one. On only the second try, they found what they were looking for. They called it Ag 246; it is also known as MEMPP, short for chlorhydrate of morpholino-ethyl-2 methy14 pheny16 pyridazone...
...Germans probably gave the drink its name from wermuth, meaning "man of courage"; others say it comes from the English "wormwood," once a prime ingredient...