"There's always e-mails, threats, hate mail, phone calls with people hanging up," she says in the article. Most frightening, however, were activists showing up at her Minneapolis suburban home one fall afternoon and threatening to set it on fire. Since then, she told George, "I never feel at ease."

The article quotes FBR President Frankie Trull saying, "There's a new generation of young people involved. They don't say, 'Okay, it's a free country, we can have different opinions.' They say, 'If you support animal research, you take your life and the lives of your family into jeopardy.'"

The University of Minnesota has been a target of animal rights activists for some time. Last September, animal rights protester Matt Bullard hung for five days from the school's Moos Tower. Bullard pleaded guilty this past May 15 to a trespassing charge. In April 1999 the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) attacked two of the University's buildings, vandalizing, destroying and stealing laboratory equipment, research data and more than 100 animals

To access the George article online, go to www.georgemag.com/xp6/George/Features/900/Monkeys.xml.

FBR encourages readers to read the article and send a letter of support to George. Not surprisingly, animal rights activists Ray Greek, president of Americans for Medical Advancement, and Rick Bogle from the Coalition to End Primate Experimentation have already spoken out against the article on George's online forum at georgebb.hfnm.com/NonCGI/Forum4/HTML/000076.html