What is anthrax? Anthrax is a disease caused by the rod-shaped bacterium Bacillus anthracis. When not actively infecting sheep or moose or people, the bug forms hard-shelled spores and goes into a kind of hibernation. These spores are hardy little things, resistant to sunlight, heat and disinfectant. They have been known to survive in soil for 80 years.
How do you catch it? You can contract anthrax by inhaling a lot of spores (at least 8,000 to 10,000), by eating contaminated meat or by coming into contact with the bacterium through an open wound. The same bug causes all three forms of the disease, but anthrax caused by inhaling is by far the most dangerous.
Is anthrax contagious? Rarely. Transmission requires direct contact with the spores. Even people who get inhalation anthrax do not exhale spores.
If somebody sent me anthrax in a letter or package, would I be able to see it? Generally, yes. For anthrax spores to be used as a weapon, they need to be dried and processed into a stable, powder-like form that will disperse in the air. The most refined bacterial spores form a fine, white dust. Cruder preparations have a brownish tint and are heavier; these spores tend to clump together and drop to the ground, making them less effective terror weapons.
The War Down And Dirty After a week of air strikes in Afghanistan, U.S. special forces are putting boots on the ground. Inside the war
A special-ops sergeant trains at Fort Bragg It was the colors that Hamad Alokzai noticed. The gaunt Afghan, with a beard like matted wool and gaudy silver rings on his fingers, had returned to Afghanistan from exile in Quetta, Pakistan, to check on his former comrades. On Thursday night he sat with his old Taliban commander under blankets in a pickup truck, safely tucked away in the hills outside Kandahar. "The bombs make a sound, then you see green lights falling through the sky," the commander told Alokzai. "The missiles have flashing yellow lights." That night, Alokzai counted 30 missiles striking targets around the city: "It was like Kandahar was covered in a floating green dust," he told TIME. Most of the Taliban fighters --including their supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar--had already left town, though a number of Omar's relatives are said to have been killed in the attacks. On Wednesday night a single missile was fired on the village of Sangesar, destroying the mosque where Omar started his movement in 1995. Even the war-hardened locals were impressed by that level of accuracy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/national/16PLAN.html この記事、すごい面白かったんだけど But details of their activities on Sept. 11 have emerged through interviews with other Guard officials.・・・ (中略) Then the pilots received the most surreal order of the awful morning. "A person came on the radio," General Haugen said, "and identified themselves as being with the Secret Service, and he said, `I want you to protect the White House at all costs.' " ってもしかして暗に撃墜したって言ってるのかな?
It's easy in Cape Town to forget you're in Africa. The freeway system is fast and efficient, although one doesn't ask about the unfinished elevated highway across the foreshore — an embarrassing monument to bad planning that Capetonians optimistically say might yet be completed. There are scores of hotels — new, refurbished and majestically old. A Cape Town tradition is tea and cucumber sandwiches at the Victorian-era Mount Nelson — known affectionately as the Nellie and as splendid as some of the English dowagers who stay there.
>13 THE WAR DOWN AND DIRTY この見出しのDIRTYが赤字になっている。 おそらくタリバンが空爆を受けてDOWN AND OUTしないで つまりOUTしないでDIRTYになってしまったということを言いたい のではないかと思います。それと、アメリカ軍が空爆から地上軍 へDOWNしてそして泥沼の戦い(DIRTY)になる、とも言いたいのだと 思います。タイムって見出しだけよむのも楽しいですよね。
Japan's greatest animator is as eccentric and complex as his best-selling films
Hayao Miyazaki is frowning. The director's latest animated feature film Spirited Away is hurtling past Titanic to become Japn's top-grossing movie release ever. The magical fable has cemented his status as a cultural icon in Japan. And his pet project--a whimsically playful children's museum on the outskirt of Tokyo celebrating his work--is finally a reality. But it's Sept. 12, the day after terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington took the lives of thousands, and the 60-year old director is angry. His mouth is set in a straught line behind a bristly white beard and hi grinds out a cigarette butt and raises his voice: "How can you ask me meaningless questions about my work when we are standing at the edge of a precipice?"
It's startling to confront his fierce, crotchety man when you're expecting the human version of Totoro, the fat furry sprite from one of Miyazaki's best-loved movies. Miyazaki is known for his oeuvre of wildly popular, feature-length animation films that showcase a childlike vision and an imagination from which spring fantastic kingdoms, strange creatures, flying contraptions and plucky-kid heroes. But he also possesses an intellectual intensity that drives his projects and a disdain of publicity that makes him about as easy to interview as J.D. Salinger. Yes, he's weaving stories for children. But he commands us all to use fantasy as a lens through which to examine our world and ourselves.
the Alliance can claim some progress;it allows Nazir's group to exist.But shie is the only woman in Khoja Bahauddin who doesn't wear a burka in public. Her priviledged status as an overseas- educated aid worker partially protects her from the beating Osema received. but when Nazir shakes hands with a Western man, she looks around furtively.It is the same motion countless Afghan women make every day,the rapid adjusting of veils to cover their faces or the eyes quickly downcast when mmen enter the room.To help empower women, Nazir runs workshops tha include reading the Koran, Islam's holy book. "If women can read the Koran themselves,"she says,"they will learn there is nothing in Islam that says women do not have the same rights as men"
スレ違い覚悟で頼みたいことがあります。 FOX NEWSでジョン・ギブソンの『BigStory』のCMを よく見ますが、あの中でワンフレーズ意味の分からない個所があります。 確か『whats gonna take to bring this(?) thing(?) wide open?』 ((?)の個所は自信がありません) だったと思いますが、どなたか意味を教えてもらえませんか?