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...kill. The American preoccupation with fame isn’t dead; it’s just dormant. In peacetime, a book contract or bodyguard or a big pair of designer sunglasses trumpet an intriguing, even dangerous level of fame. In wartime, that same status is signaled by a white powder spilling from an envelope. We want to be possessed of a reputation that even enemies lurking outside the blue glow of American popular culture can recognize. If the price of such fame is a life-threatening respiratory infection, then so be it; it’s a small price...
...Karachi, the commercial capital of Pakistan. Two weeks ago, in the newsroom of Pakistan's largest daily newspaper, the 1-million-circulation Jang, a 32-year-old business reporter ripped open a hand-delivered envelope he assumed to be a press release. Then he panicked. "There is powder," he cried, recoiling and flinging the letter onto his desk. "It has powder!" The paper's management sent the letter for tests at Karachi's respected Aga Khan University Hospital, but reporters and other staff continued to work in the newsroom. Last week, the hospital report came back: the letter tested positive...
...Jang sealed off the newsroom as an "anthrax zone," had it disinfected and put 80 exposed staff on antibiotics. None of them has shown signs of anthrax infection, including the business reporter who received the powder-laden envelope. "I am fine," he told TIME, asking that his name not be publicized. "But I am still wondering with whom I had such an enmity that I was sent this powder...
...small and coarse-featured. Her very dark top lip slipped slowly—with the wetness of a snail, I thought—over her big white teeth. For the first time I saw that she used powder. It made the black skin matte, and you could see where the powder ended and the shiny skin showed again. I was repelled, ashamed, moved...
Last week, as in the last few, a plurality of calls to HUPD have been associated with concern over anthrax. Between Oct. 28 and Nov. 1, 19 of 60 total calls to HUPD were about suspicious mail or powder. As of yet, no anthrax has been found at Harvard...