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...pathway to the Bomb. The expulsion of the inspectors was the clearest sign yet that Pyongyang is intent on pushing the stand-off to the brink. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, lamented that the world now has "no clue" what Pyongyang might try to develop in coming months. In fact, it does have a clue: North Korea, which the CIA believes already has enough fissile material for one or two bombs, is poised to extract enough plutonium from the spent fuel to produce four to eight more within a matter of months. It is unknown...
...attack and accelerated its nuclear rush. Says Derek Mitchell, who worked on Asia policy in the Clinton Pentagon: "People talk about North Korea being crazy, but it's not. It's purely rational for a nation with no assets being threatened by the world's major power to develop insurance against attack...
...likely to be used. It sounds farfetched, but last week's ricin arrests in London show that the possibility of a bioterror attack is not fantasy. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that such an attack was "present and real and with us now." All the more reason to develop effective vaccines and antidotes - fast. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down are doing just that. They say that a protective nasal spray like the one described above could be a few years away. Coley Pharmaceutical Group...
...unfortunate because we were starting to develop some chemistry, especially after the Yale game,” Moore said. “But this is really the best time of the year to get injured with breaks for Christmas and exams. We have the fewest number of games over the most amount of weeks right now, so these guys won’t miss a lot of action recovering...
...Pillinger's visions helped get his project funded. He trawled around the U.K., begging businesses, government authorities and research facilities for resources to develop the project, eventually landing some $60 million in cash and in-kind help. British pop band Blur and artist Damien Hirst gave works that Beagle will carry to Mars. Eventually the Department of Trade and Industry kicked in an $8 million grant. "Just building a lightweight, university-driven probe, and showing that much less demanding technology is needed, is in itself a triumph," says respected biomedical engineer Heinz Wolff. How will the probe know if there...