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...Tuesday evening, even as 1,400 Senate staff members stood in long lines to get their noses swabbed, scientists at Fort Detrick, Md., the army's bioterror research base, warned Daschle that their tests suggested they were dealing with something particularly dangerous: the anthrax was milled into a powder so fine it could have slipped into the Hart Senate Office Building's ventilation system and infected other areas. Fortunately, by this time, someone had realized it made no sense to bring people back into Hart to be swabbed, and so moved everyone to the Russell Caucus room, scene...
...fire. The death of a Palestinian militant, Atef Abayat, in a car-bomb explosion in Bethlehem was seen as part of the Israeli response to Ze?evi?s murder. Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia and dozens of other countries as public health officials examined letters and packages containing suspicious powder, but found nothing. NORTHERN IRELAND Unionists Quit Protestant leaders resigned from the power-sharing government in Belfast, pushing Ulster's home rule closer to total collapse. Unionists said they would return only if the Irish Republican Army began disarming within a week. Although the I.R.A.'s political wing Sinn Fein...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) sealed off a Winthrop House courtyard for decontamination last Friday morning after discovering a suspicious white powder on the ground. The powder was taken to the Massachusetts State Laboratory for anthrax testing...
...suspicious powder was found on the sidewalk inside the main gate of the courtyard leading to Winthrop’s D and G entryways...
HUPD was contacted about the powder sometime around 9 a.m. and called the hazardous materials (HAZMAT) team soon after...