The suit wearing gunman was killed after shooting at and injuring two Pentagon police officers. The shooting occured during the evening rush-hour outside the metro station entrance. As he neared the security checkpoint Bedell was reported to appear to be "pretty calm".
We never went without food or clothing. In fact, we dressed better than many of our neighbors and classmates. We never went to bed hungry.
The idea of using mammals as mobile factories is now being tried out at Ohio University, where Wagner and his colleagues recently implanted an interferon gene in mice to see if it would enhance resistance to viral infections. ''Anything you can do in mice,'' says Wagner, ''you can do in larger mammals.'' A cow, he continues, is by far the least expensive protein producer; it can turn out a pound of protein in its milk for about $3 of feed. Since cows are ''nothing but cells on the hoof,'' as Wagner puts it, he sees them as future living factories of pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes, and other substances.