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...taken a week and a half to nail down the diagnosis of anthrax at NBC. At first the baby believed to have been infected at ABC News was thought to have a spider bite. Testing at the CDC lab in Atlanta was delayed for 14 hours after a 1-hr. power failure. Most health-care workers have never seen a case of anthrax, though they are learning what it looks like fast. Many of the national Emergency Response Network's 100-odd public-health labs, flooded with suspicious samples to test, had to learn to do triage: the disease detectives...
SENTENCED. PAULA POUNDSTONE, 41, comedian; to five years' probation, six months of rehabilitation and 200 hr. of community service; for endangering her three adopted and two foster children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Poundstone, whose children are currently in state care, was barred from taking in foster kids again. She admitted, "My drinking helped to create a dangerous situation...
Fuel to stay aloft for 24 hr...
...individual quest for history in second place to his team's struggle to get into the play-offs. And on Friday night, the San Francisco Giant slugger did his part, hitting not one but two home runs during the longest nine-inning game in major league baseball history (4 hr. 27 min.). The first of those blasts (photograph above) broke the record of 70 set to much fanfare just three years ago by the Cardinals' Mark McGwire. Bonds had already set a new record for walks (overtaking the one set by Babe Ruth in 1923) earlier in the week. Bonds...
Wonderful enough that they are willing to drive their pickups and horse trailers for a 12-hr. stretch every week, sometimes for a mere 7-sec. horseback ride. "People think we're nuts," says Ernest Forsberg, 58, a team roper and president of the N.S.P.R.A., "but I look at most people our age, and they're out of shape because they've quit doing what they love. None of us plan to quit...