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Probably not via missile--the explosion needed to distribute the virus would at the same time kill most of it, and the rest would not do well in open air and sunlight. In any case, missiles may not be necessary. The virus spreads so efficiently from person to person that an agent--presumably immunized--with an aerosolized batch of smallpox in a subway station or a small building could easily seed an epidemic. Because the virus is tiny, it's relatively easy to aerosolize. But there's no evidence that Iraq has developed the capability...
...heated debate on Smith and Chapa’s bill had begun well before last night’s meeting, via the council’s open e-mail list...
...Founded in 1926 after a colonial civil servant began experiencing visions, Caodaism now has almost 6 million adherents, who communicate with spirits via s?ances. Communist leaders replaced the church's ruling hierarchy with a government-supervised council after the fall of Saigon in 1975, but the faith endures for millions of Vietnamese. "God teaches us that everyone is equal and there are many paths," says Doan Tuong Minh, 77, who has followed Caodaism since she was 18. "If you open your heart, your third eye will open, and God will give you peace." In the halls of the Holy...
When I asked him about this via e-mail, Chomsky wrote: “The reasons are well understood by anyone who is involved in human rights and related activities: one signs petitions when one agrees with their main thrust and recognizes their human significance. No one who signs a petition is expected to approve of every word, even of large parts, if the main thrust is appropriate and sufficiently important. That’s second nature to human rights activists...
...still encourage the designers while sporting her BCBG, but somewhere in the newsroom she’ll nestle down next to a writer and mold text without making the author remember that their story was less-than-fabulous in the beginning. (She edited my cheating story via with this method in the wee hours of Wednesday morning last week and it would have been gibberish without her.) But if Liz is the left shoe, she’ll join her right shoe when she struts into the job: the estimable Rachel E. Dry. This magazine never had a better equation...