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...dark days of the cold war, Soviet propaganda was predictably noisy and lurid. During Dictator Joseph Stalin's "Hate America" campaign of the early 1950s, for instance, Kremlin artists depicted U.S. soldiers as hideous, spider-like creatures, armed with spray guns and injection needles, demonically waging germ warfare. But the ad that filled three-quarters of a page in the New York Times last week was far more sophisticated. WHAT HOLDS BACK PROGRESS AT THE GENEVA TALKS? queried the headline. In four columns of dull gray type, paid for by the Soviet embassy in Washington, an editorial reprinted from Pravda...
...powerful acid-fighting drugs were 89% more likely to develop pneumonia than people who no longer took them. Less potent acid reducers such as Pepcid and Tagamet also raised the risk of pneumonia, by 63%. Doctors say such drugs are so good at knocking out the stomach's germ-killing acids that they make patients--especially the elderly and people with chronic lung illness--more vulnerable to the bugs that cause pneumonia. --By Sora Song
...during the Gulf War in 1991 had prevented the U.S.-led liberators of Kuwait from marching all the way to Baghdad to topple his regime. In a closed-door chat between Saddam and a senior aide just before the Gulf War began, the report says, he had ordered that "germ and chemical warheads ... be in [military officers'] hands ASAP" and targeted to hit Riyadh and Jeddah, "the biggest Saudi cities with all the decision-makers and where the Saudi rulers live," as well as "all the Israeli cities." He had squelched the Kurdish rebellion by gassing villages and put down...
...WORKS: Cosentino's Silestone is made by compressing natural crystal quartz at the molecular level. In the process, the microbe-resistant agent is bonded to the rock so the countertop has a germ-fighting property when cut, shaped or even chipped...
...many Iraqis as a sign that despite Bremer's departure, they remain under occupation. And on a number of key security decisions, ranging from the extent of an amnesty to be offered to insurgents to the question of whether to release two imprisoned women who'd served Saddam's germ warfare program (and whose freedom had been demanded by terrorists as the price for sparing the life of a hostage), the U.S. embassy appeared to have veto power. Despite the president talking up Allawi's credentials as the voice of a new Iraq, the former exile has yet to prove...