hm
dimethylmercury.
acquaintance of my cousin's was working with that stuff. a single drop fell off of her pipette, landed on her latex glove. burned a hole through her latex glove right away, burned through her skin, and entered her bloodstream.
within minutes, she was dead.
very deadly stuff. specially made gloves, i'm told, only buy you time.
cuz works for columbia univ's chem dept. i asked him, "so how do you handle this stuff safely?"
"simple! REFUSE TO HANDLE DIMETHYLMERCURY, no matter how much your boss pressures you to do so... ."
....
HERE'S A THOUGHT.
what if the terrs didn't really plan on blowing up any planes all along? what if the plot was real, but the guys caught were just poor sots given essentially a suicide mission? what if the real, the REAL objective of the terrs was to effectively cripple part of our economy, without actually killing anyone and incurring minimal political disfavor ?
sun tzu would have appreciated the prudence of such an effective strategy.