Word: forte
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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...
...distribution center in northeast Washington--where all congressional mail is shipped. That very evening, Oct. 15, in a series of conference calls, officials from all federal agencies involved in the investigation--including the FBI, the Secret Service, U.S. Capitol Police, the Postal Inspection Service and the CDC--learned from Fort Detrick scientists what turned out to be the key facts: the Daschle letter contained "highly virulent" anthrax with a high "spore concentration," according to a participant in the briefings. And it was "aerosolized." The word "weaponized" was not used, but it didn't need to be, this official says...
...reform can solve the central question bedeviling the agency: how to separate the many who want to tour Disney World from the few who might blow it up. The INS recently detained a Pakistani business analyst, who was trying to fly from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to New York City but didn't have his papers with him. After the traveler's lawyer faxed a copy of his business visa, an INS agent let him board the plane with one final plea: "I hope you are not a terrorist. Don't embarrass...
...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...