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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Experts said on Saturday they were worried by a leaked report that describes an outbreak of smallpox in the Soviet Union -- one they say may point to the testing of a smallpox biological weapon.Seven people became ill in the 1971 outbreak and three died of what appeared to be the more fatal, and more rare, hemorrhagic form of the infection, said Dr. Alan Zelicoff of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, one of the authors of the report."Someone has successfully disseminated smallpox as an aerosol," Zelicoff said in an interview."It has been talked about and it...

**SNIP** He urged attendees to challenge denial of climate change in conversations in families and communities and elsewhere. “We can win this conversation and winning a conversation can make all the difference,” Gore said. “Don’t let denial go unchallenged.” Gore noted how racism and later homophobia have become increasingly unacceptable.

Manifestations of anti-Semitism in the European Union What follows is an as yet unpublished EU report on anti-Semitism in Europe. This report was leaked to The Jerusalem Post by the CRIF, the umbrella body representing the French Jewish organized community and by the European Jewish Congress, an affiliate of the WJC. Manifestations of anti-Semitism in the European Union First Semester 2002 Synthesis Report on behalf of the EUMC [European Monitoring Centre] on Racism and Xenophobia by Werner Bergmann and Juliane Wetzel Zentrum fur Antisemitismusforschung / Center for Research on Antisemitism Technische Universiteit Berlin. Vienna, March 2003 Preface Although we know...