Bruce Ivins had the skill, the opportunity, and the motives to single-handedly produce the crisis that the state needed, writes Floy Lilley. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the
Savannah Liston, 17, recently posted comments on her Facebook page, expressing excitement that would be reserved by other teenagers for having won free tickets and an all-expenses-paid trip to a Mumford & Sons concert. Savannah’s event? An online introduction to logic class. 12 hours before class started — “Bad news: FB finally forced me to get
[An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by the author, is available for download .] The crisis was that there was no crisis. The patents that Bruce Ivins held with his coinventors were never going to make him any real money or give him the star attention he deserved, unless the Army became convinced that his “next-generation” anthrax vaccine
The highest market price for potable water today is reflected in an art object. The bottle contains water from springs in France and Fiji and a glacier in Iceland, with a sprinkling of 23-karat-gold dust in the water. It’s Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliani , and it fetched $60,000 at auction. For us mere mundanes, however, we can still spend
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