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		<title>The Fear Factor</title>
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	View the PDF On April 21st, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that two children in Southern California had developed a &#8220;febrile respiratory illness&#8221; caused by a flu virus that had never before been recognized in humans. The C.D.C. referred to the infection, in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Life of Its Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download a PDF Where will synthetic biology lead us?
	by Michael Specter

	The first time Jay Keasling remembers hearing the word &#8220;artemisinin,&#8221; about a decade ago, he had no idea what it meant. &#8220;Not a clue,&#8221; Keasling, a professor of biochemical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, recalled. Although artemisinin has become the world&#8217;s most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Foot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download the PDF In measuring carbon emissions, it&#39;s easy to confuse morality and science. 
	by Michael Specter

	A little more than a year ago, Sir Terry Leahy, who is the chief executive of the Tesco chain of supermarkets, Britain&#8217;s largest retailer, delivered a speech to a group called the Forum for the Future, about the implications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin&#8217;s Surprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download the PDF Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses? 
	by Michael Specter

	Thierry Heidmann&#8217;s office, adjacent to the laboratory he runs at the Institut Gustave Roussy, on the southern edge of Paris, could pass for a museum of genetic catastrophe. Files devoted to the world&#8217;s most horrifying infectious diseases fill the cabinets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damn Spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download the PDF The losing war on junk e-mail.
	by Michael Specter

	In the spring of 1978, an energetic marketing man named Gary Thuerk wanted to let people in the technology world know that his company, the Digital Equipment Corporation, was about to introduce a powerful new computer system. DEC operated out of an old wool mill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Branson&#8217;s Luck</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download the PDF The business world&#8217;s high roller is betting everything on biofuels.
	by Michael Specter

	Richard Branson likes to pretend that business is his hobby; he sees himself as a modern version of a nineteenth-century British adventurer&#8212;Phileas T. Fogg, unbound. Rather than travelling around the world in eighty days, however, he appears to be trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Moscow &#8211; Kremlin Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download PDFWhy are Vladimir Putin&#39;s opponents dying?
	by Michael Specter

	Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of disheartening tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired diplomat, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya&#39;s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reporter at Large &#8211; The Last Drop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download the PDF Confronting the possibility of a global catastrophe.
	by Michael Specter

	Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies strapped to their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Russia &#8211; Planet Kirsan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download the PDF Inside a chess master&#39;s fiefdom. 
	by Michael Specter

	Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is not your typical post-Soviet millionaire Buddhist autocrat. He is the ruler of Kalmykia, one of the least well known of Russia&#39;s twenty-one republics. He also happens to be president of the F&#233;d&#233;ration Internationale des &#201;checs, or FIDE, the governing body of world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reporter at Large &#8211; Political Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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	Download the PDFThe Bush Administration&#39;s war on the laboratory.
	by Michael Specter

	On December 1st, Merck &#38; Company applied to the Food and Drug Administration for a license to sell a vaccine that it has developed to protect women against the human papillomavirus. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States; more than [...]]]></description>
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