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...history teacher sighed and slipped the learning kit into his backpack. This had been the most trying year of Henry's career at Huntington. The movie industry had produced more than 300 films, many of which had tanked after one weekend, and planning a coherent history curriculum had taken a toll on his nerves. Although Henry had conscientiously prepared--even flying out to L.A. with other district teachers for the summer pitch meetings--he never felt he had a handle on which films would likely gross enough to be teachable. A film that couldn't open, that did only...
...might slip such bioweapons into the U.S. and use them. It wouldn't take much. This is the poor man's atom bomb. A gram of anthrax culture contains a trillion spores, theoretically enough for 100 million fatal doses. The stuff can be spread into the air with backpack sprayers or even perfume atomizers. The U.N.'s specialists say that 100 lbs. of anthrax bacteria sprayed around a city of 1 million could kill 36,000 people within a week. And Saddam has produced anthrax in large amounts, along with botulinum, a poison that kills by paralyzing the victim...
Anyone who saw me at the OCS Career Forum last month could instantly tell I wasn't really interested in a job. For one thing, I was wearing jeans, a sweater and my huge L.L. Bean backpack--an ensemble which didn't exactly scream "Hire Me!" And I wasn't exactly schmoozing the recruiters, either. For example...
...Irving Street resident reported that at 11 a.m. an unknown person took his backpack while he was using a telephone on JFK Street near Mt. Auburn Street...
...moment and I learned that they were Peter LaBarbera, the publisher of an anti-gay journal, and Bob Knight of the Family Research Council, one of the nation's largest religious right organizations. My heart began to pound as I quietly removed the "Queer Harvard" button from my backpack, hoping not to tip my hand for a few moments...