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...normal letter coated with some kind of microbes, viruses, that can withstand dryness for quite some time and still maintain its capability of multiplying...enough to coat the letter and guarantee it reaches its destination as deadly to the human being, either orally or through a scratch in the skin, and gets him infected with a contagious sickness that resolves into his death...CHEMICAL LETTERS...consist of a normal letter coated with some mustard agent or other poisons. This method is not yet deployed for fear of the reaction on an international level...
...pitchman for a facial-care product? It sure looks like him (sitting next to someone who bears a shakier resemblance to Hillary) in a commercial for Rejuveface, airing several times a day on Chinese TV. It's actually just two actors impersonating the former First Couple to hawk the skin treatment, which sells in Chinese department stores for $350 and purports to eliminate "ugly pustules" with tiny electric shocks...
...fallen. Soon after, he reported, they fled the city, joining some 8,000 Taliban and radical fighters. It was unclear whether the retreat had been ordered or was a result of panic. Said Jawed Hussein, 21, a Pakistani captured by the Alliance: "Everybody was running to save his own skin." Or driving. Abandoning tanks and heavy weapons, they stole an estimated 800 cars for their getaway. Destinations varied: some headed toward Maidanshahr, Ghazni and the southwest; others, south toward Logar province; and still others, east toward Jalalabad and the al-Qaeda stronghold of Tora Bora in Nangarhar province...
...prospect of never having a family dinner again. After September 11th, those of us left personally unscathed have a responsibility to be enormously grateful for what we have. That doesn?t mean, however, that we forget to appreciate the way our nearest and dearest can get under our skin in sixty seconds flat...
...pain self-administer prescribed doses of intravenous drugs. But those patients have always had to be tethered to an IV and drug bag. The first fully implantable drug pump could change all that. Here's how it works: morphine is stored in a pager-size pump just under the skin of the abdomen. A plastic catheter runs from the pump to the fluid-filled space outside the spinal cord, where pain signals travel. When the patient presses a handheld remote, the pump sends a measured dose of morphine directly to the spine. According to its maker, the SynchroMed works better...