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...present level is bad enough for Kathryn Wimmer, an apparel designer from Portland, Oregon, who was visiting a friend in Paris last week. "When I came here six years ago, things were a little expensive," she says. "Now you just watch the dollar going down every day. Pretty soon it's going to be hard just to come here." As for Christmas shopping in Europe, forget it. This year, Wimmer's only buying postcards...
...creation of the first completely man-made virus, announced last week on the website of the journal Science, provoked a surprisingly heated debate among biologists. Eckard Wimmer, a microbiologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, led a team that built a copy of the polio virus by assembling more than 7,000 base pairs of DNA to match a published record of the virus's genetic code. Some scientists say the research, while an impressive technical feat, creates needless fears in a population already skittish about anthrax and smallpox. "Why did [Wimmer] pick a human disease...
...brouhaha justified? Wimmer, who has been studying polio for more than 33 years, says it was important to demonstrate that viruses can be made from scratch. Polio is a disease that would be of little interest to terrorists, he argues: there is a readily available vaccine, and terrorists are unlikely to copy Wimmer's technique when it is easier to obtain deadly viruses in nature. Smallpox, the one bug that can't be found there, is too complex to be made this way. So why all the fuss? Says Wimmer: "There is something with viruses that strikes a chord...
...start the tournament, the Harvard team coasted over the Yale team of Aftab Mathur and Ziad Haider, winning 3-0 in the quarters following a first-round bye. The duo then faced the first Trinity pairing of Patrick Malloy and Noah Wimmer in the semis...
...about 150 commercial weather companies that provide services to business. Their offerings range from short-term forecasts tailored to a company's specific vulnerabilities to long-range predictions of how a company should prepare for the next season. The industry's growth is not closely tracked, but Jeff Wimmer, chairman of the Commercial Weather Services Association, a trade group, estimates that sales have quadrupled in the past decade. A few companies' client bases have exploded in that time...