Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections, by Madeline Drexler Secret Agents looks at today's new and emerging infections—those that have increased in attack rate or geographic range, or threaten to do so—and tells the stories of scientists racing to catch up with invisible adversaries superior in both speed and guile. Each chapter focuses on a different threat: foodborne pathogens, antibiotic resistance, animals and insectborne diseases, pandemic influenza, infectious causes of chronic disease, and bioterrorism, including the latest information on the public health threats posed by anthrax and diseases such as smallpox.

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«Hmmmm. I'm one of those cranks who believes that Erich von Daniken (author of the book Chariots of the Gods?) is basically a racist who is unable to accept that dark-skinned peoples and their ancient cultures could possibly have thought significant thoughts or invented significant technologies, and so has instead posited that white folks from outer space came down to impart the swarthy with all those good ideas and deeds.

«So it's with real mixed enotions that I point to the website for a theme park that this nut is spearheading: Mystery Park.

«Mini AIR reports that amongst the investors are 'Sony, Coca-Cola, Sennheiser, Hewlett-Packard, and Jeffries Asset management, Ltd., the executives and shareholders of whom are also, like Erich von Daniken, presumably descended from ancient astronauts from outer space.'»

  environy

«Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change»

  SADE directed by Benoît Jacquot .

A Man for All Centuries, and Sins. The Marquis de Sade is back—in a new film. But in many ways this provocateur has never left. By Marcelle Clements. [New York Times: Movies]

  160 years of the Marquis de Sade

  Sade: My Neighbor, by the late Pierre Klossowski

  Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de Sade