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Barbara Leflein, president of Leflein Associates, a small market-research firm in Fort Lee, N.J., escorts clients like Coach leather goods and the Showtime cable channel around the country to promote their wares. Noting their continuing reluctance to fly, she recently began offering videoconferenced focus groups as a way to keep business. "The client can still get the visceral reactions of the group by watching it on a large-screen TV," says Leflein. "If you're a boutique firm, you really have to think outside of the box," she says. Or inside the box, as the case...
Nobody just waltzes into the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. The lab, better known as USAMRIID, sits on the grounds of Fort Detrick, in rural Maryland, about an hour north of Washington, and before you can even get close to the mostly windowless concrete building, you have to get on the base itself. Employees must flash their badges, and visitors must show two forms of photo ID--and open their trunks and glove compartments--before guards will let them pass. To enter the lab itself, armed security guards, present around the clock, must wave you through...
...such scrutiny? Because USAMRIID handles the deadliest pathogens known to man, including Ebola, Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever--and, of course, anthrax. It was at Fort Detrick that the U.S. stockpile of biological weapons was manufactured in the 1960s, and at USAMRIID that research into deadly germs was concentrated for the next three decades...
...analysis she has prepared a profile of the killer far more detailed than anything the FBI has released. She thinks the killer is a middle-aged American who works for a CIA contractor in the Washington area but has had access in the past to the labs at Fort Detrick. She believes he or she has been vaccinated against anthrax and knows how to conceal forensic evidence. Says Rosenberg: "It's highly probable that the perpetrator is someone who was known in the lab, someone who was thought to be O.K." Based on the composition of the anthrax, she thinks...
Congressional investigators are out one potential star witness in the Enron scandal. Former Enron vice-chairman Cliff Baxter was found dead in his car early Friday morning in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land, with a Fort Bend County justice of the peace ruling Mr. Baxter's death a suicide by midday. (There was apparently a note, whose contents have not been disclosed...