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...much sense. It's hard to imagine any scenario by which buried spores could emerge from the ground, mix with drinking water and then lodge in someone's lungs. And sure enough, a sweep of the American Media building quickly made clear that Stevens had come into contact with anthrax at work, not play. Traces of powdery spores were found on his computer keyboard, in the company mailroom and, ultimately, throughout America Media's Boca Raton, Fla., offices. Someone had deliberately sent the microbes into the building...
Things began to get a little clearer a couple of weeks later, when anthrax-laced letters were discovered at NBC, the New York Post and Senator Tom Daschle's office in Washington. This time, alerted by the Florida case, investigators managed to get their hands on the source: three letters (and ultimately a fourth, addressed to Senator Patrick Leahy) with similar messages and handwriting, all of which had traveled through a major mail-sorting facility in suburban Hamilton Township, N.J. Despite what the experts had so confidently asserted, you could clearly mount an anthrax attack through the mail...
...middle of the pack. Many of you liked the fact that Senate majority leader Tom Daschle "fought off some of the worst proposals of the Bush administration as well as showing real character by keeping the Senate open for business when his Senate office was attacked with anthrax," and "has caused legislation to be carefully considered instead of being steamrolled through by an uncaring and corporate-biased President...
...Because, wherever he is, whether in Belfast or Bethlehem or our own backyard, and by whatever method he uses, from anthrax to hijacked planes, he has fundamentally changed not just the way we live our lives, but how we view life itself. - Kathleen Beckett, New York...