[CIMC-work] Got UIC bioweapons center panel ready

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

See below (we'll go with Garth's thumbnail image; great work, Garth).  
Feedback welcome.  Let me know when we should post this. 

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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
  /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
     http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk http://chicago.indymedia.org


WMDs at UIC: University Lab Wins Record Grant to Develop 
Cipro-Resistant Anthrax Bioweaponry
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.uic.edu">The University of Illinois at Chicago</A> won
the largest grant in its history--to use for developing weapons of mass
destruction.   A team of ten UIC researchers won a $15.7 million grant 
to develop a strain of <A
HREF="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/anthrax_g.htm">anthrax</A>
resistant to the antibiotic
<A HREF="http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/cipro/">ciprofloxacin</A>
(cipro).
<P>This development of such a strain has raised serious ethical and
security 
questions, and is moreover <A
HREF="http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_ihl_biological_weapons?OpenDocument">a
violation of longstanding international 
law</A> (including the 1972 International Biological Weapons Convention 
and the 1925 Geneva Protocol). 
<P>A public hearing was held November 19 at UIC to air concerns 
and protests from the university community and concerned citizens.  Listen
to excerpts 
of the meeting <A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33568&group=webcast">here</A>.
<P>
<B>Additional Reports</B>:
[ 
<A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33445&group=webcast">1</A>
|
<A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33434&group=webcast">2</A>
|
<A
HREF="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33261&group=webcast">3</A> 
] 
<P>
<B>Additional Links</B>: <A
HREF="http://www.uic.edu/depts/biodefense/">UIC National Center for
Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases</A>