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Can billions of dollars build biodefenses?
Oct 30 2005 8:27PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The bacteria lie dormant, freeze-dried in sealed ampules, in a refrigerator on a teeming university campus beside the Nile. They're among Earth's most common germs _ clostridia perfringens, a cause of food poisoning, a specimen for research. But this pathogen can also be a weapon: Iraqi scientists worked for years to mobilize this "Agent G" for Saddam Hussein's wars.
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Chemistry Nobel laureate Smalley dies
Oct 30 2005 5:47AM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Nobel laureate Richard Smalley, a Rice University professor who helped discover buckyballs, the soccer ball-shaped form of carbon, and championed the field of nanotechnology, has died at the age of 62.
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