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...consultants plan to have a draft report ready by mid-spring and a final report in June...
They said they hope to draft legislation requiring that Massachusetts parents be educated about the disease before their children start their first year of college...
Chances are you haven't read the Bush Administration's "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace." Since it weighs in at a hefty 65 pages, who can blame you? Still, a surprising amount of the draft report is aimed at home-computer owners. Here's the gist: the more dependent we become on the Internet, the more damage can be done by taking down large portions of it. And it doesn't take a criminal genius to realize that PC users, with their increasingly high-speed connections and low-grade security setups, are the easiest on-ramp for any kind...
...Security Council, European allies, led by Britain, have been pressing Washington to give Iraq an option of forestalling war by cooperating with weapons inspections, a carrot before the stick. The Bush team is willing to go along--but not for very long. The White House circulated a draft resolution late last week that accepts the British approach in principle but then called on Saddam Hussein to declare all his weapons of mass destruction within seven days of U.N. action. The Bush Administration wants to give Iraq no more than a month to open all its military sites and weapons plants...
Another goal of the research is to use population biology to compare the parasite genome with the genome of the mosquito, which has already been published, and the genome of the human, a draft of which has been completed. This will allow scientists to better understand the interaction between the parasite and its two hosts, according to Wirth...