**WEB/THE BLACK SPHERE: It turns out that black babies are cheaper than monkeys. Don’t believe me, just read this report by Reuters. This is why black babies are being used as lab rats to test a bio-weapons grade anthrax vaccine. In the time of a black president {ahem}, a presidential ethics panel (you read that right) is the panel who concluded that black babies could be used for the testing. Believe it or not, this is being done for the kids. We need a pediatric anthrax vaccine. Here is a what panel chairman Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, had to say: “Balancing the need to protect children against the need to know, for instance, the safe dose of the vaccine, made this one of the most difficult ethical reviews a bioethics board has ever conducted because kids could one day die by the millions from anthrax. So what? NO BLACK CHILDREN are dying from anthrax, and who knows the future implications of testing on black children?"