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Meanwhile, in the population at large, the vengeful and neurotic have not magically been reformed. Law-enforcement agents have turned into butlers for a public that, unlike its leaders, has no shortage of imagination. Samples of dirt, detergent and sugar are clogging Fort Detrick and the few other labs that can test for anthrax. An oozing Albuquerque package is found to contain homemade tamales. White powder that brings to a halt a Little Rock, Ark., rally for drug-free schools turns out to be powdered sugar from a funnel cake...
...tried. The letter to Daschle, mailed on Oct. 8 and, like the NBC envelope, postmarked Trenton, had been opened Monday morning in a suite full of people. By Tuesday evening, even as 1,400 Senate staff members stood in long lines to get their noses swabbed, scientists at Fort Detrick, Md., the army's bioterror research base, warned Daschle that their tests suggested they were dealing with something particularly dangerous: the anthrax was milled into a powder so fine it could have slipped into the Hart Senate Office Building's ventilation system and infected other areas. Fortunately, by this time...
...tried. The letter to Daschle, mailed on Oct. 8 and, like the NBC envelope, postmarked Trenton, had been opened Monday morning in a suite full of people. By Tuesday evening, even as 1,400 Senate staff members stood in long lines to get their noses swabbed, scientists at Fort Detrick, Md., the army's bioterror research base, warned Daschle that their tests suggested they were dealing with something particularly dangerous: the anthrax was milled into a powder so fine it could have slipped into the Hart Senate Office Building's ventilation system and infected other areas. Fortunately, by this time...
...room. And over on the Senate side, events were moving in the opposite direction. The earlier reports of weapons-grade anthrax were evaporating. It was more a "garden variety" brand, Major General John Parker, the commanding general of the Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, told Daschle, and there was no evidence that anthrax particles had wafted into the ventilation system. Senators who heard Hastert announce that the House would be adjourning that day were appalled. By 1 p.m., Daschle was out in front of the cameras declaring that "we will not let this stop...
...three U.S. military personnel accused of sexual wrongdoing have already exacted the ultimate in self-inflicted punishment: suicide. Private Alan May, 22, hanged himself in his Aberdeen barracks on Jan. 4, three days before he was to face a rape charge. Staff Sergeant Michael Thompson, 31, of Fort Detrick, Maryland, took his life on Feb. 24, three days after being questioned by Army investigators about a female soldier's complaint that he had indecently assaulted her. The case involved a two-year-old incident that surfaced only after soldiers were told to report episodes of unwanted touching...