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...lecturer in the school’s foreign languages and literature department opened a piece of mail yesterday morning to find about a teaspoon of white powder...
...powder was taken to a state labotory for testing, and word of its composition is expected to be released today...
...follow public sentiment? Maybe some of both. But a big part of the reason, if we're to be honest, is that we simply don't want to die. And call it inappropriate or laudable, that's what we were doing before we started shaking our mail for suspicious powder. Today you have Tom Brokaw clenching back purple rage on his own newscast and journalists around the country imagining their own kids in the position of that ABC producer's baby. (My own two-month-old visited my office a couple of weeks ago. He's doing fine...
South Station was evacuated on Saturday for an hour after an official spotted a pile of white powder near an Amtrak ticket counter. Fire and police officials in HAZMAT suits determined the powder to be laundry detergent...
Northern Afghanistan subsists in biblical times - except for the Kalashnikovs, that is. There is no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no running water. The average lifespan is less than 50 years. A three year drought has ground everything into a yellow dust, a choking powder that clogs lungs and obscures hope...