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...challenge for Saddam's engineers. Nonetheless, a gram of anthrax could serve as a poor man's suitcase bomb: that's 1 trillion spores, enough for 100 million fatal doses. Hiding, transporting and disseminating that type of poison is relatively easy: no missiles are needed, just a crop duster, backpack sprayer, even a perfume atomizer...
...report of a security guard in foot pursuit of a subject that was observed breaking into a vending machine at Conant Lab. Check of the area came back with negative results. The suspect is described as a white male, thirty years of age, full beard, wearing blue jeans, a backpack and a puffy black coat...
...friend. She wanted a divorce and was adamant about it. But on June 3, according to a friend of Terry's, John refused to leave. He dug in for the next four days. On June 7, an exasperated Terry put toiletries, a blow-dryer and clothes in a backpack and headed for a co-worker's home...
...Terry's friends tell the story, she would find something incendiary in the backpack. Terry told her mother that daughters Tasha, 17, and Brandy, 13, apparently slipped in a years-old letter from their father expressing a love now long withered and seeking a reconciliation that had come and gone. The children may have hoped the words would still have force. If so, Terry's relatives say, they were too much for her to bear. She had dropped out of high school to have a baby with John; she stuck with him through 18 years and moved from California...
...more and more gadgets, from laptops and printers to cell phones and Palm Pilots. What does it let you do? A cool example: Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Headset HBH-30 ($150) is a lightweight earpiece-microphone that lets you speak unobtrusively through a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone sitting in a backpack, a briefcase or even another room as far as 30 ft. away...