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Bioterror hysteria: The new “Star Wars”
Alan Goldstein
The federal rush to find antidotes for biological weapons is diverting essential funding from the fight against truly scary enemies -- like cancer.
Vegans vs. Atkins
Katharine Mieszkowski
Animal-rights activists claim that low-carb, meat-heavy diets are killing people. Are they raising legitimate health concerns -- or are they just rabid anti-carnivores?
The Fix
Amy Reiter
Mellencamp goes ape! Does Matt Lauer have a Limbaugh problem? Did Adrien and Orlando battle over Charlize? Plus: Does anyone really care if Carrot Top is gay?
Cashing in on cord blood
Anna Holmes
Private companies are charging thousands of dollars to collect newborns' stem cells.
Johnny Cash, 1932-2003
Stephanie Zacharek
He was the Man in Black and the man with the voice that sounded like black coffee. America's greatest protest singer, a seminal figure in both rock and country, is dead at 71.
The Fix
Amy Reiter
Johnny Cash and John Ritter, RIP. Plus: Halle and Nicole are among "best dressed"; Britney and Mariah are not.
“Seabiscuit”
Charles Taylor
Director Gary Ross yearns to make this saga of the racehorse who transfixed Depression America into a Hollywood classic. But unlike the awkward real-life Seabiscuit, his version is pretty -- and lacks a soul.
Letters
Salon Staff
Genetic engineering is the best thing since sliced bread! Readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's "Faster! Stronger! Less Human!"
“Human beings, as currently constituted, are good enough”
Ralph Brave
Bill McKibben says that the brave new genetic world may give us better teeth and brains -- but it'll steal our souls.
Murder most foul
Mary Papenfuss
Medical researchers now believe that homicide, not medical complications, is the leading cause of pregnancy-associated death.
O Noraht, Noraht
Anne Lamott
I wanted to love my mom because she did the best that she could do. But her best was terrible.
“Fat Land” by Greg Critser
Laura Miller
In America, fat and poor go together. A new book looks at why.
Onward, Christian soldiers
Louise Witt
With its allies now controlling Congress and the White House, the religious right launches a crusade to cleanse America of sin. The first battlefield: Women's bodies.
Brains 1, Barbie 0
Jake Tapper
The inside story of how a Harvard law student beat out her more bodacious sisters for the Miss America crown.
Defense lawyer or terrorist’s accomplice?
Dave Lindorff
The Justice Department insists Lynne Stewart helped the man behind the 1993 WTC bombing. Her defenders say she's a victim of John Ashcroft's jihad against attorney-client privilege.
Celebrity pill pushers
Lawrence Goodman
Under the guise of "public service," pharmaceutical companies are quietly paying stars to solicit new customers on TV talk shows with tales of personal suffering and blessed relief.
Playing God
Scott Anderson
Bush's bioethics czar Leon Kass wants to criminalize lifesaving medical research as violating the natural order of things. Would he have opposed wiping out smallpox?
Bush’s band-aid approach
Fran Smith
A prestigious, congressionally mandated report has found that minority Americans receive glaringly inferior medical care. The Bush response: Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day!
Fat kids, silent parents
Amy Benfer
Hectored by experts and afraid of hurting their kids' self-esteem, parents of overweight children remain silent -- as the nation faces a youthful obesity crisis.
Waylon Jennings 1937-2002
Edward Morris
The outlaw hero who brought attitude to country music is dead at 64.
Ordinary terrorists
Flore de Preneuf
Osama Bahar and Nabil Halabiyeh played soccer and practiced karate together. On Saturday, the best friends blew up themselves and 10 young Israelis. An exclusive portrait of two unlikely mass killers.
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