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...rationalization as wilfully ludicruous and self-centered as any of the others people use to feel safe. And, apparently, just as empty. Anthrax exposure has now been reported at the offices of supermarket-tabloid publisher American Media, NBC News (via a letter addressed to Tom Brokaw which exposed his assistant) and, presumptively, ABC News (a producer's 7-month-old baby came down with the illness after visiting the offices, though no link has been proven). The media isn't the only target off the anthrax mailings, which have also hit a Microsoft office and the offices of Senate majority...
...know there is a huge gap between his fond wishes and their possible fulfillment. Some of them have a memory. By the time of the 1992 election, "the new world order" had become mere evidence of the hubris of a President who seemed awed by the scanner at a supermarket checkout. "We had this problem in the early '90s," said a State Department official last week. "You know--'It's a new world, we can do everything.' Our rhetoric was way ahead of where it should...
...beauty, love and guiltless sex, brewed a "salsa" of salmonella and sprinkled it on fruits and veggies in the salad bar at Shakey's Pizza in The Dalles, Ore. They put it in blue-cheese dressing, table-top coffee creamers and potato salads at 10 local restaurants and a supermarket. They poured it into a glass of water and handed it to a judge. They fed it to the district attorney, the doctor, the dentist. Their plan: to seize control of the county government by packing polling booths with imported homeless people while making local residents too sick to vote...
...were driving to the A&P, that something had happened at the Trade Center. My daughter and I walked from the parking lot and got a preliminary sense of the magnitude. One of the orthodox Jews from Chabad Lubavitch in nearby Bedford Hills was standing outside the supermarket, talking to anyone who walked near about "these people" who did "such insane things." It was an extraordinary encounter on a serene, placid day. In the check-out line, minutes later, every woman buying groceries was comparing notes and knowledge with the others, and all were shaking their heads slowly...
...loss of power was caused by a malfunction of two electricity transformers on Putnam Avenue, near its intersection with River Street and behind the Bread and Circus supermarket...