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...deadly agents could be delivered through the air. But of these, smallpox may be the most worrisome. Killing 30% of those infected and leaving the rest scarred for life, it spreads easily from person to person, especially in a population that has largely lost its immunity; mass outbreaks would swamp hospitals. While vaccination in the first days after infection offers the only cure, enough freeze-dried vaccine left over from the early 1980s remains on hand to inoculate, by some estimates, just 7.5 million people. In this state of unpreparedness, smallpox could take many lives...
Comparing the opportunity for a “campus that is several times as large as this Yard” to the planning that turned a swamp into the Harvard Business School and a train yard into the Kennedy School of Government, Summers stressed the importance that Allston holds to the University...
...poorly represented on one front in Friday’s speech. Summers reaffirmed his intention to aggressively develop University land in Allston in what may turn out to be a multi-billion dollar expansion, citing the precedents set by the construction of Harvard Business School on a former swamp and the Kennedy School of Government on a former Red Line train yard. But though expansion is sorely needed, the issue is more complex than a matter of building on new and far-flung land; it will require careful planning and a respectful relationship with the Allston community...
...future. Remaking Afghanistan may yet turn out to be the mother of all "nation-building" exercises - a form of intervention that sends chills through Washington's national security circles. But as complex and daunting as the challenge may be, it may also be an unavoidable aspect of "draining the swamp" that has nurtured Al Qaida's global terrorist enterprise...
...what comes next. It's hard to plan D-day against an enemy with no beaches and no borders, and when wise heads counsel that the most effective counterattack may be the least publicly satisfying kind - the quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need the courage of your convictions," Adlai Stevenson once said. "Sometimes you need the courage of your doubts...