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What's driving the shift? Over the past year, electronic payment got a boost when the anthrax attacks elevated fear of using the mail, says Bill Nelson of the Electronic Payments Association. The hike in postal rates also hurt snail mail...
...looking for the syndromes which are early manifestations of bioterrorism," Platt said. "For example, lower lung ailments are the earliest manifestation of [inhaled] anthrax...
BIOLOGICAL The biggest, scariest unknown in Saddam's arsenal: inspectors know 17 tons of biological-weapons growth culture for making anthrax was unaccounted for in previous inspections, and suspect much more like it is out there...
...without an obvious military purpose, just the kind of place a dictator is likely to hide sensitive weapons. On top of everything, the U.N. doesn’t expect to have inspectors on the ground until six months from now, giving Hussein the chance to prepare his stash of anthrax, dig up old canisters of VX and throw everything he has at developing a nuclear bomb. Weapons inspection is a tedious process, and the first phase will be spent just figuring out which installations need to be inspected. If the inspectors are ever on the verge of finding something important...
Detection and analysis are also enhanced by small technology that is not strictly nano-scale. MesoSystems, a young but profitable firm, sells to fire departments handheld devices that collect biological particles 0.5 to 10 microns across--anthrax, for one--and preserve them in a liquid for identification. MesoSystems supplies Lockheed Martin with an air sampler it uses in its Biomail Solutions product, a biohazard detector in field testing at some federal agencies. MesoSystems made about $250,000 last year on revenues of $7 million and this year hopes to gross more than $10 million...