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Tauscher stepping down as undersecretary of state for arms control

(Foreign Policy) Following her successful battle with esophageal cancer, Ellen Tauscher is taking a step back and handing over several of her responsibilities as the State Department’s top arms control official, State Department officials told The Cable today. In early February, Tauscher will formally resign as undersecretary of State for arms control and international security  Read More »

Kansas residents oppose plans for federal lab

(San Francisco Examiner) The $650 million lab would do research on deadly plant and animal pathogens, including foot-and-mouth disease, and critics said during the two-hour meeting that the risks outweighed the benefits of building it near Kansas State University.

Sunday Dialogue: Bird Flu Experiments

(New York Times) Further, all stocks of these mutants, as well as their “recipes” should be deposited immediately in highest-security Biosafety Level 4 facilities, and all further research conducted only in such facilities, thereby maximizing environmental safety and …

Flu research and public safety

(The Economist) The American government, in the shape of the country’s National Scientific Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), called on the world’s two leading scientific journals to censor research. Nature and Science were about to publish studies by researchers …

Justice Dept. takes on itself in probe of 2001 anthrax attacks

(Washington Post) Since it began a decade ago, the federal government’s massive investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks has been plagued by missteps and complications. Investigators initially focused on the wrong man, then had to pay him a nearly $6 million settlement …

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