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That did not seem like sheer hysteria by Friday, when we learned that Tom Brokaw's assistant at NBC had tested positive for anthrax after opening a threatening letter with powder inside. At that moment the New York Times was being evacuated after another letter rained powder in the newsroom; this one was addressed to bioterrorism expert Judith Miller. Initial testing showed no sign of anthrax, but the threat still seemed real, and cunning. You didn't need to shoot the messengers; you just needed to scare them to death, because fear is bacterial as well. It can spread...
Then on Friday everything changed. At about midday, authorities reported that one of Tom Brokaw's assistants on the NBC Nightly News in New York City had developed a form of anthrax as well, possibly from something contained in mail she had handled a couple of weeks earlier. And even as New York City and federal executives went on television to urge the public to remain calm, word began to circulate that the third-floor newsroom at the New York Times, just 10 blocks from the NBC studios, had been evacuated. Reason: a Times reporter had opened an envelope that...
...Brokaw has been taking the hottest antibiotic on the market, Cipro, since Monday. The “Nightly News” staff will not be allowed to return to their offices for at least a week...
...mention getting mailed there from New Jersey, where a good portion of the displaced financial community fled after the planes hit - the big-money investors took it pretty well. All this meant was that now no one would open the mail of staffer-drenched folks like Tom Brokaw and Pataki - financial types do it all by computer anyway - and it?s not as if the Post Office was ever a good investment...
...incident in Daschle’s office came on the heels of Friday’s news: a case of anthrax contracted by an assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and a suspicious letter sent to a New York Times bioterrorism reporter...