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...were so many hoaxes that frustrated cops are threatening to put the wise guys in jail for life if they catch them. Local police departments were deluged with reports of suspicious substances. "The green stuff on the street is guacamole!" said an exasperated Chicago police department spokesman. "The white powder on the stairs is baking soda. These are not reasons to call 911. People have got to start using some common sense...
...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...
...mentality," a doctor said. Clinicians tried to reason with people, explaining that their odds of being hit by a car while running to the ER are far greater than their chances of contracting anthrax. "We've been testing a lot of Sweet'N Low, drywall dust, sugar and talcum powder," said Kathy Barton, chief of public affairs for Houston's department of health and human services. "When we think we get the public calmed down, something else cracks down in Washington or New York and it heats up again...
...were so many hoaxes that frustrated cops are threatening to put the wise guys in jail for life if they catch them. Local police departments were deluged with reports of suspicious substances. "The green stuff on the street is guacamole!" said an exasperated Chicago police department spokesman. "The white powder on the stairs is baking soda. These are not reasons to call 911. People have got to start using some common sense...
...terrorist - or terrorists - who attacked with envelopes full of anthrax powder turned out to be as savvy and sophisticated as the ones who hijacked four U.S. airliners full of jet fuel. In a world whose circadian rhythm is now set by the 24-hour news cycle, the anthrax attacker(s) knew - or maybe they've now discovered - that the best way to create an instant media frenzy over terror was to send the deadly letters to the media...