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...scheduled to drop a sonic bomb of seismic proportions on the Boston massive, I was finding such a thing increasingly unlikely. The atmosphere was a let-down—instead of a noisy club filling to capacity, I found several handfuls of bored people idly listening to the horrid strain of Latin-lite fusion muzak filtering through the sound system. It was another half hour before the lights finally dimmed...
...press conference Thursday, Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge told reporters that new tests show further evidence the anthrax found in Florida, New York and Washington is from the same strain. The sample taken from Tom Dashcle's office appears to have been altered to make it more easily dispersed and inhaled...
...order to pay off this semester, Murray’s family has sold 40 acres of their soybean farm. Worse still, Murray has watched her parents’ relationship deteriorate. “I’m always on the lookout for marital strain.” Last weekend Murray’s parents drove from Michigan to talk to her. “They told me we have no money left. How can I not work hard in school when my family is losing its farm? I feel like I should be selling my eggs or something. It?...
...There?s one called variola minor, which has a very low death rate, and one called variola major, which has the 30 percent death rate. Bioterrorists would most likely use the variola major strain...
...public got nervous. When Stevens? co-worker Ernesto Blanco was discovered to have anthrax spores in his nasal passages, nervousness turned to panic. Health officials in Florida, where the men lived, report that Stevens, who died last week, and Blanco, who has not shown any symptoms, contracted the same strain of the rare disease, and called in more than 700 of their colleagues for testing...