Word: forte
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...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...
...half its bookings (Disney World, for instance) should focus fresh attention and advertising dollars on potential visitors within driving distance. Visit Florida, the Tallahassee-based official tourism marketing agency for Florida, will allow its entire $2 million emergency budget to be used for in-state advertising, and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a massive direct-mail campaign throughout the Southeast. Las Vegas is directing a $13 million advertising effort at markets within a 750-mile radius. One week after the terror attacks, the management at the tony Canyon Ranch spa persuaded 67 East Coast-based...
...running club which marks each mile covered with a pile of white flour, was mistaken for anthrax-spewing members of Al Qaeda. Yet at former Majority leader Mike Mansfield's burial at Arlington Cemetery last week, with half the Senate in attendance, only those who entered on the Fort Myer side got the dog-sniffing and mirror under the chassis treatment. Everyone who entered on the Memorial Bridge side was waved through without a question...
...Wadsworth Ct., Fort Wayne, IN: The parents of Ben D. Mathis-Lilley ‘03 get long-distance telephone service installed in their new home. This installation is accompanied by a 100-piece marching band, giant “Veritas” banners and AT&T service representative “Gary...
...Peshawar On the road down from the Khyber Pass, TIME photographer John Stanmeyer jumps out of our car to take pictures of Pakistani soldiers marching to an old British fort on a craggy hilltop. A narrow-faced man from Pakistani military intelligence (ISI) happens to drive by in a pickup truck and accuses Stanmeyer of being a spy. The two of us are quickly taken to the fort for interrogation. An army officer intercedes and gains our release two hours later; he gestures apologetically at the ISI man, who is fuming over our good luck. The officer cautions: "You know...