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...Friday afternoon, no branch of government was left untouched by the scare. The U.S. Supreme Court building closed for environmental testing after anthrax was found in the high court's remote mail facility. A State Department mail handler who does not work near any of the previously investigated sites has been hospitalized with pulmonary anthrax. The CIA announced that it had found a trace amount of anthrax in a mail-handling facility at its headquarters. Across the city, further environmental tests on congressional office buildings revealed more traces of anthrax. And in New York, scientists found anthrax on four letter...
Hepatitis A is the one you hear about when it strikes at restaurants, picnics or other large gatherings. Neither blood borne nor generally fatal, it's easily transmitted by an infected food handler. Washing your hands after going to the bathroom and before eating can help prevent its spread. There's also an effective vaccine...
...They could thwart the security by having a baggage handler put the material aboard the plane. That link is being investigated,” he said...
...Yehuda Edri of Unit 504, which runs the Israeli army's West Bank network of Palestinian informants, died when a collaborator he had gone to meet outside Bethlehem shot him. Military intelligence changed its procedures to match the Shin Bet, where bodyguards search the collaborator before he meets his handler. Still, only three agents have been killed by collaborators during meetings in the past few years. The collaborators aren't so lucky. They average three years before they are discovered by their compatriots. Then either they are killed by vigilantes or they flee to Israel. During the first intifadeh...
...money that turns Palestinians into informants. It doesn't take very much. Collaborators who have confessed to Arafat's police say they often get as little as $50 for each meeting with a handler. But the desperate economic conditions of the intifadeh, during which unemployment has risen to more than 60%, favor the Israeli recruiters. Despite the sympathy Palestinian court officials feel for the economic straits that push people into collaboration, there is no quarter given at the swift trials in State Security Court...