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		<title>Francisella tularensis is lethal in 30 percent of untreated cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t recall ever hearing the name tularemia growing up, but I’m pretty sure I was vaguely aware of something called rabbit fever — if only because I’d seen the warning against rabbititis in Hare Tonic: “And then suddenly everything’d go black!” Tularemia is a debilitating illness, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), rife among wild [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you say&#8230;hero?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Junod’s 1998 Esquire piece Can You Say&#8230;Hero? profiles Mr. Rogers: He was barely more than a boy himself when he learned what he would be fighting for, and fighting against, for the rest of his life. He was in college. He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>They should properly be called mass casualty weapons, not weapons of mass destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the centuries, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), armies have used primitive methods to spread pestilence: The Romans dropped poison into wells to contaminate their enemies’ water supplies. The English gave blankets smeared with smallpox to Indians in the eighteenth century during the French and Indian Wars. Confederate troops in the American Civil War left [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyd Vogel comes from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently watched Tom Hanks’ Mr. Rogers movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (on Netflix), and I wasn’t expecting it to star Matthew Rhys, whom I know through The Americans and, more recently, Widow’s Bay. Rhys plays a jaded journalist tasked with producing a puff piece on the popular children’s show host, but the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Trafficking in germs and viruses was legal then, as it is today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek describes (in Biohazard) some of the basics of the Soviet bioweapons program: At the height of the U.S. offensive biological weapons program, American scientists restricted themselves to developing armaments that could be countered by antibiotics or vaccines, out of a concern for protecting troops and civilians from potential accidents. The Soviet government decided [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Once they were no longer censored, they ceased to have a subject</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen summers ago, Ann Manov was spending 15 hours a week in a neurology lab, sorting fruit flies under a microscope, freezing them in liquid nitrogen, and pureeing their sliced-off heads, but the only thing that made her want to get out of bed in the morning was a class on the Russian short story [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The most fortunate inhabitants of the Soviet Union were the condemned monkeys of Rebirth Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek describes (in Biohazard) the Rebirth Island test site in the Aral Sea: Ten centuries ago, according to Russian legend, there was a mysterious kingdom on the shores of the Black Sea called Tmu Tarakan. Its name was variously translated as the “Place of Darkness” or the “Kingdom of Cockroaches.” Modern-day Muscovites use the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rats that received xanthan gum for ten weeks developed colon inflammation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xanthan gum, which helps give ice cream, yogurt, sauces, cakes, and gluten-free pasta their familiar texture, has been linked to gut inflammation: Valued for its thickening, stabilizing, and gelling properties, it is among the food industry’s most widely used additives. It also helps make liquids safer to swallow for people with dysphagia, a condition that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In Soviet government offices, an executive’s status could be measured by the number of his phones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard) his position in the Soviet system: My great grandfather had been a khan, a member of the nobility in what is now Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, but I grew up in a system that lavished few of its privileges on non-Russians. My wife and daughter and two young sons had [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapamycin was changing brain function rather than rebuilding the brain&#8217;s underlying structure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even mild inflammation in the middle of pregnancy can produce lasting autism-like changes in developing mice: Reported consequences include autism-like behaviors, unusual brain growth, seizures, and greater sensitivity to ordinary sounds, touch, and other sensory experiences. These effects can continue into adulthood. In the new study, published in Nature Communications, UCLA scientists found that one [&#8230;]]]></description>
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