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...messengers before they even knew what ailed them. But postal workers Joseph Curseen Jr., 47, and Thomas Morris Jr., 53, still delivered the message. Think bigger, Curseen and Morris told us. The only thing more elusive than the terrorists are the microscopic weapons they have unleashed. The baby-powder- like substance in the letter opened on Capitol Hill on Oct. 15 does not respect laws and traditions such as gravity and envelopes. So authorities must not continue to abide by the old rules that put public calm before caution, process before speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For The Anthrax Killers | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...enforcement agents have turned into butlers for a public that, unlike its leaders, has no shortage of imagination. Samples of dirt, detergent and sugar are clogging Fort Detrick and the few other labs that can test for anthrax. An oozing Albuquerque package is found to contain homemade tamales. White powder that brings to a halt a Little Rock, Ark., rally for drug-free schools turns out to be powdered sugar from a funnel cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For The Anthrax Killers | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...pristine water a year--enough to supply a community of 4,000 households--out of an ancient sandstone aquifer that lies beneath the Hopi and Navajo lands. Peabody claws coal out of land leased from the tribes at a site known as Black Mesa and pulverizes it into powder. The company then mixes the coal with water and pumps it through a pipeline 273 miles west to the Mohave Generating Station, which produces electricity for 1.5 million homes in nearby Las Vegas and Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Inc.: Indians Vs. Miners | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...HUPD officers were dispatched to Canaday Hall to investigate an unknown white substance. The substance was eventually reported to be baby powder...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...HUPD officer was dispatched to Longfellow Hall to investigate a suspicious white powder. EHS responded and declared the substance to be cleaning solution...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

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