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Sleep-deprived workers may resort to alcohol and drugs as a way to compensate for fatigue. But the solution only compounds the distress. Many people wind up on a hurtling roller coaster, popping stimulants to keep awake, tossing down alcohol or sleeping pills to put themselves out, then swallowing more pills to get up again...
...sanctions against Iraq could be counted on to halt its industry and hobble its military. That judgment would have been no surprise if it had come from any of the Democrats who used last week's House and Senate hearings to warn the Bush Administration against a hasty resort to force in the Persian Gulf. But the message came from one of the President's own men: William Webster, director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...best -- to convert such commonplace anxieties, smoothly and plausibly, into deliciously prolonged worst-case scenarios. Almost casually, we learn there was nothing accidental about Annie's being there to rescue Paul after his accident; she had been stalking him as he finished a new book at a neighboring resort. Gradually, it dawns on us that she is never going to surrender him to a hospital. She is going to keep him in her isolated house -- no phones, no visitors, just her special, suffocating brand...
Saddam would also have to consider the inevitable outrage of the international community, which has banned the use of biological weapons since 1975. Resort to germ warfare would doubtless provoke devastating reprisals. "Saddam would be insane to use biological agents," says Matthew Meselson, a biological-weapons expert at Harvard University. Still, the Iraqi leader has ignored international opinion before. During the Iran-Iraq conflict, he employed poison gas against Iranian infantry and his own Kurdish population. The main impact of germ warfare on American soldiers may be psychological. Says Robert Weinberg, a germ-warfare expert at M.I.T.: "The very notion...
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