15-01-2012, 05:09 PM
Bugs n bombs: "Is the middle of Boston the right place for a maximum-security laboratory where researchers would handle and research some of the world's deadliest bacteria and microbes?" New England Cable News questions. Because scientists cannot rapidly identify the actual culprit in an epidemic or bioterror attack, Brown University boffins seek a therapeutic agent effective against many possible infections, Futurity spotlights. A new secure mail screening facility will protect major bizzes in the NYC area from WMD threats in their mailstream, Post & Parcel reports while The London Evening Standard reports Britain building up stocks of vaccine to cope with an anthrax attack at the Summer Olympics.
The Silver Scream: The latest installment of the Jason Bourne Hollywood spy franchise began filming in manic Manila on Tuesday amid heavy security over a feared terrorist attack, Agence France-Presse reports. Kiefer Sutherland confirms that principle shooting for the "24" film, based on the lamented FOX series, will start in April, The Celebrity Cafe recounts. "Come Valentine's Day, Warner Bros. will release Bilal Lashari's film on counterterrorism, "Waar. Alas, only in Pakistan for now," Bollywood Life leads. Released "just months after 9/11 and the launch of the war on terror," Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down" (Columbia) is one of "the top 10 conservative movies of the modern era," a Daily Telegraph contributor contends.
Book Nook: In ex-Pentagon chief William S. Cohen's second novel, "Blink of an Eye" (Tom Doherty), "a nuclear bomb detonates, destroys an American city and the government is having trouble figuring out who did it," American Spectator curtain-raises. from frog
The Silver Scream: The latest installment of the Jason Bourne Hollywood spy franchise began filming in manic Manila on Tuesday amid heavy security over a feared terrorist attack, Agence France-Presse reports. Kiefer Sutherland confirms that principle shooting for the "24" film, based on the lamented FOX series, will start in April, The Celebrity Cafe recounts. "Come Valentine's Day, Warner Bros. will release Bilal Lashari's film on counterterrorism, "Waar. Alas, only in Pakistan for now," Bollywood Life leads. Released "just months after 9/11 and the launch of the war on terror," Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down" (Columbia) is one of "the top 10 conservative movies of the modern era," a Daily Telegraph contributor contends.
Book Nook: In ex-Pentagon chief William S. Cohen's second novel, "Blink of an Eye" (Tom Doherty), "a nuclear bomb detonates, destroys an American city and the government is having trouble figuring out who did it," American Spectator curtain-raises. from frog