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... GLPBAL NEWS... NEWS ... While the bottle floats along, instead of Nearly two-thirds of department heads _ tried to recruit him to supply information to biodegrading it will "photodegrade", he said. from 140 medical school and teaching MI6. The businessman, another former The Sun's UV rays will turn the bottle hospitals said they had some relationship KGB agent, also alleged that his ex- brittle, much like they would crack the vinyl with industry. Over a quarter acted as paid colleague asked him to find candidates for onacar roof. They will break down the — consultants and one in 10 sat on a board of _ political asylum in the UK. He left Britain bottle into small pieces and, in some cases, directors. Five of the 459 heads reported for Russia soon after, and has never into particles as fine as dust. receiving gifts such as tickets to sporting returned. The Garbage Patch is not a solid island, events in the last year—something that Mr Litvinenko had defected to Britain in as some people believe, Moore said. industry guidelines generally prohibit 2000 and was granted political asylum the Instead, it resembles a soupy mass, (Journal of the American Medical following year. interspersed with large pieces of junk such Association, vol. 298, p. 1779). It is understood that Sir John Scarlett, as derelict fishing nets and waterlogged Department heads said they were happy now the head of MI6 and once based in tyres—"an alphabet soup", he called it. to accept grants of less than $10,000 for Moscow, was involved in recruiting him to Also, it's undetectable by overhead satellite | educational purposes, but showed concern _ the Secret Intelligence Service. photos because it's 80 per cent plastic and about larger payments. The fact that the 43-year-old Russian ex- therefore translucent, Moore added. Financial incentives could make them — spy was actually working for Britain when The plastic moves just beneath the _ less vigilant about ensuring that educational he died could provide the key to his surface, from one inch to depths of 300 feet materials and research plans were not extraordinary killing. [91.44 metres], according to samples he biased towards specific treatments, Mr Lugovoy has admitted to meeting Mr collected on the most recent trip, he said. Campbell warns. Litvinenko, a former lieutenant-colonel in "The ocean is downhill from (Source: New Scientist, 19 October 2007) the FSB (the re-styled KGB), several times everywhere," Moore said. "It's like a toilet in the months before his death. But he that never flushes. You can't take these POISONED RUSSIAN EX-SPY claimed he was being made a scapegoat for particles out of the ocean. You can just stop WAS A PAID MI6 AGENT the death. He said that he believes MI6 was putting them in." lormer Russian spy Alexander involved in the murder because agents had (Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Litvinenko was receiving a retainer of been unhappy at the way Mr Litvinenko had October 2007) around £2,000 a month from the British boasted of his links to the agency. security services at the time he was (Source: The Daily Mail, 26 October 2007) SCALE OF PHARMA PAYMENTS poisoned. TO MED SCHOOLS REVEALED The disclosure by diplomatic and PUTIN WARNS OF THOSE Sink options, free meals, lecture fees— intelligence sources is the latest twist in the © WHO WOULD RULE MANKIND the pharmaceutical industry showers Litvinenko affair, which has plunged RS President Vladimir Putin has them all on department heads at some US _ relations between London and Moscow to claimed that Russia is under threat from medical schools. Drug companies are big _ their lowest point since the Cold War. others who wish to split the country and investors in medical research and _post- On the day of the poisoning, | November, _ take its vast natural resources. qualification training for doctors. former KGB agent Mr Litvinenko met Mr Putin told a group of military cadets Now, a survey by Eric Campbell of prime suspect Andrei Lugovoy at the and youth group members that while "an Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square, overwhelming majority of people in the and his colleagues has put figures on the London. world" are friendly towards Russia, there industry's involvement. Mr Lugovoy claims that Mr Litvinenko are some who "keep saying to this day that ” wild ha a treatments, SCALE OF PHARMA PAYMENTS TO MED SCHOOLS REVEALED Sink options, free meals, lecture fees— the pharmaceutical industry showers them all on department heads at some US medical schools. Drug companies are big investors in medical research and _post- qualification training for doctors. Now, a survey by Eric Campbell of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and his colleagues has put figures on the industry's involvement. PUTIN WARNS OF THOSE WHO WOULD RULE MANKIND R! ian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia is under threat from others who wish to split the country and take its vast natural resources. Mr Putin told a group of military cadets and youth group members that while "an overwhelming majority of people in the world" are friendly towards Russia, there are some who "keep saying to this day that our nation should be split". "Some believe that we are too lucky to possess so much natural wealth, which they say must be divided," Mr Putin said, speaking on National Unity Day. "These people have lost their mind," he added with a smile. Mr Putin in the same breath took a shot at the USA, saying there are people who "would like to build a unipolar world and rule over all of mankind". He said any attempt to establish a unipolar world was doomed to fail. "Nothing of this kind has ever occurred in our planet's history, and I don't think it will ever happen," the president said. National Unity Day was created by Mr Putin in 2005 to replace a holiday dedicated to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. (Source: The Scotsman, 5 November 2007) SS | () 20: What do you feel you want more of from life? 8 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2007 — JANUARY 2008