Various matters

There are numerous items -- seemingly disparate but all tied together by common themes -- worth noting from the last couple of days; they are all individually linkable with links at the bottom of the post:

The New York Times' Scott Shane reports today that Dr. Henry Heine, a former U.S. Army microbiologist, testified Thursday before a panel of the National Academy of Sciences examining the FBI's scientific claims in the anthrax case, and said "it was impossible that the deadly spores...