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People take the advice with varying measures of bemusement. "I'm not all that worried," says Marguerite Marz, an educational wilderness leader in Dallas, "but I felt I'd be stupid if I didn't follow the government guidelines. I got the last roll of 6-mm plastic at Lowe's." A mom in Maryland bought shower curtains instead of plastic sheeting, figuring she could use them once the world returns to normal. The country's largest duct-tape manufacturer was running its factories round the clock as sales tripled in a week. Fortunately, there's a website to teach...
...Administration demonstrated again last week its determination to remind Americans of the dangers of terrorism, it has done far less to prepare the country for actually defending against it. While the White House's suggestion that Americans defend themselves against chemical or biological attacks with duct tape and plastic sheeting was dismissed by many for its naivete, it laid bare a sobering truth: the U.S. still doesn't have a credible and comprehensive system in place to cope with such attacks. "We're not building the means to respond well," says Stephen Flynn, a homeland-security expert at the Council...
...their Tutsi neighbors. In 100 days, using guns, machetes, clubs and spears, they slaughtered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. And now Uwize and thousands of other killers are coming home. At the end of January Uwize, 37, walked out of a Kigali prison carrying a small green plastic bag containing his entire wardrobe and a sack filled with the odds and ends accumulated during his almost nine years of imprisonment: water cans, pots, pans and an old pair of sports shoes. Along with other prisoners, he boarded a waiting white bus that would take him to his home...
...first insecticide was made from powdered chrysanthemums in China nearly 2,000 years ago. Now biotech companies test bananas that contain a hepatitis vaccine and tomatoes that fight cancer. Dow makes a kind of corn that can turn into biodegradable plastic. Other companies have field-tested a cross between a flounder and a tomato to see if a fish gene can help a fruit stay fresh in freezing weather. The U.S. and the rest of the world are locked in a fight over how much to tinker with and how much to tell about what is now inside what...
...friars, in 1215. The Wednesday and Friday (winter only) foie gras and poultry market here has dwindled over recent years to just a handful of farmers. Madame Gazel, seated at a rickety folding table, is a 32-year veteran of the market, her carefully plucked chickens stashed in blue plastic picnic coolers and her fresh eggs in a wicker basket. A few blocks away, the tree-lined boulevard called the Allées Jules Guesde hosts the big regional antiques and bric-a-brac market held on the first full weekend of every month. Dealers have to wait as long...