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Most experts advise against it. Besides, there's no practical way to do it. Tossing your mail into a pressure cooker set at 15 lbs. for 15 min. would do the trick. Anthrax dies in wet heat above 250[degrees]F. But you would end up with pretty soggy letters. Speaking of soggy, boiling your letters won't work because the water reaches only 212[degrees]F. Ironing with steam heat may kill off the spores if you can get the iron hot enough, but then you risk setting your mail on fire. As for microwaving, you would need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handle With Care | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...show also works because, in context, Bernie's outlandish threats--"I'm'a bust your head till the white meat shows"--are as innocuous as Jackie Gleason (another influence of Mac's) yelling, "To the moon, Alice!" Still, Mac acknowledges he will probably take heat for them. He even offers viewers a defense: "When I say I want to kill those kids, you know what I mean...Bernie Mac just say what you want to say but can't." If his show stays this funny and true, we're glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Make Room For Mac Daddy | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...TECH SIGHTS Handheld or weapon-mounted scopes and heat sensors that pinpoint targets through smoke, haze, fog and darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon's Wish List | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...weather for Saturday night at Colgate calls for lows in the mid-30s and possible snow but Harvard is hoping to heat it up on the ice for its first games of the season...

Author: By Tyson E. Hubbard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Will Begin Season At Cornell, Colgate | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

Moore said all suspicious mail can be directed to the Harvard Environmental Health and Safety Department, where it is heat-shocked to kill all bacteria. However, with the Postal Service’s plan to sanitize all incoming mail, a project that will cost billions of dollars, this will be no longer necessary...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anthrax Delays Princeton Mail | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

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