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...water industry is now hastily examining the places it might be vulnerable. Captured terrorist suspects in Pakistan told their interrogators that al-Qaeda was dabbling with such toxins as cyanide and botulinum. But poisoning reservoirs isn't considered a realistic threat, since it would take truckloads of toxins to contaminate a typical reservoir, and any biological agents would be destroyed during purification. Considered far likelier is a truck bomb or other explosive device set off beneath a pumping station. "For instance," says Curtis, "one city has six giant pumps, and they're all in one building. If you crashed...
Prior to the Gulf War, according to the Iraqi government, Baghdad produced 8,400 liters of anthrax, 19,000 liters of botulinum and 2,000 liters each of aflatoxin and clostridium. A single gram of anthrax--roughly 1/30 oz.--contains 1 trillion spores, or enough for 100 million fatal doses if properly dispersed. "In terms of where it went," says Duelfer of the Iraqi bio cache, "we could never nail it all down." Even if inspectors had found all the materials before they left the country, Iraq has almost certainly made more in the past three years. Thanks to Rihab...
Botox is short for "botulinum toxin," the substance that causes botulism, a sometimes fatal form of food poisoning. It sounds scarier than it is; in small quantities, Botox merely interrupts nerve impulses to muscles in the face. The lines that furrow the forehead when you raise your eyebrows, the crow's feet that appear when you squint and the creases between the eyebrows when you frown are all caused by tension in underlying muscles, which contract and squeeze the skin like an accordion. Botox keeps this from happening...
Botox: short for botulinum toxin. The name won't make you smile, but the injection can keep you from frowning. A decade ago, the toxin that causes botulism (a form of food poisoning) was a treatment only for spasmodic eye muscles. Then doctors saw that it also smoothed skin. Now it is the most popular cosmetic procedure, with more than a million injections in 2000 (according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery), 89% of them to women. Botox is just the thing to erase worry and anger lines, to take years and cares off the most fretful visage...
...least two dissatisfied former employees are suing. Richard Crosland, 55, a microbiologist suing for age discrimination after his 1997 layoff, worked primarily with botulinum toxin. "7-Eleven had better inventory controls than USAMRIID," he says. "The inventories were pretty much a joke. People often just filled them in using last month's forms. In my 11 years there, they never once asked for my botulinum toxin records. If I had taken it all home--which of course I didn't--no one would have known." How can he be sure? "After I was fired," says Crosland, "I made three trips...