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Anthrax found in third worker at paper in Fla.
Sun StaffBOCA RATON, Fla. - A third employee of a tabloid newspaper was exposed to anthrax, federal officials said last night, prompting them to launch a criminal investigation into how the bacteria were spread, by whom and why. The employee was identified as a...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Crime, Law and Justice, Anthrax, Health and Safety at School, Justice System
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Editor's wife rented to 2 suspects, FBI says
Chicago Tribune staff reporterIn a strange twist, the FBI said Sunday that the wife of the editor of the tabloid newspaper where anthrax has been discovered rented apartments in Delray Beach, Fla., to two men suspected of crashing a hijacked jetliner into the World Trade Center on...Tags: Rentals, Guerrilla Activity, CNN (tv network), Health and Medical Professionals, Marshall Field
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Terrorist escalation raises new threats
Baltimore Sun National StaffIn the strikes against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, terrorists unleashed a previously unimaginable level of horror. Now, as the United States finds itself in a new realm where the unthinkable can and does happen, there looms another chilling...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, War Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Anthrax, Science and Technology
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20 charged with fraudulently trying to get licenses
Chicago Tribune staff reportersMore than 20 people who hold licenses to transport hazardous materials are in federal custody and have become a new focus in the ever-broadening investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, federal law enforcement...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Crime, Law and Justice, Chuck Grassley, Transportation Accidents, Laws
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Anthrax probe widens as second case discovered
Sun StaffFederal officials widened their probe yesterday into the death of a Florida man from anthrax, acknowledging that they are considering bioterrorism after anthrax spores were found on the victim's computer keyboard and in a colleague. Attorney General John...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Crime, Law and Justice, Anthrax, Science and Technology, FBI
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Chemical, biological threats get new focus
Chicago Tribune national correspondentThe terrorist attacks in New York and Washington have left cities and small towns scrambling to prepare for what U.S. officials say could be the next round of danger: biological or chemical attacks that most rescue workers are ill-equipped to handle....Tags: Guerrilla Activity, National Security, Montgomery County (Alabama), Companies and Corporations, Chicago Tribune
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Anthrax alert shuts House
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - Investigators said that they have "substantive leads" about the origins of the anthrax that was mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and triggered a partial shutdown yesterday on Capitol Hill. Congressional leaders closed the House...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Russell Feingold, Anthrax, Trent Lott, Justice System
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Researchers try to keep pace with biological threats
Baltimore Sun StaffBefore Sept. 11, smallpox had been conquered, plague was a chapter in Medieval history, and anthrax was a heavy-metal band. In government, military and academic labs, a few scientists were studying these and other rare scourges that might be used in...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Anthrax, Health and Safety at School, Government, Science and Technology
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Bacteria took high level of skill to make
Chicago Tribune staff reporterThe anthrax spores delivered to a Senate office appear to be concentrated, pure and processed to a minute size that would make them a formidable weapon, government officials said Wednesday, suggesting that the biological attack required sophisticated...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, University of Iowa, Tom Daschle, Anthrax, Science and Technology
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System's stumbles bode ill for larger bioterror
Baltimore Sun StaffFew people are closer to the center of the national anthrax investigation than Dr. Donald A. Henderson, one of the world's leading experts on bioterrorism, whom Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has called in as a top scientific...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, CNN (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, Anthrax, Government
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Health chief gets crisis education on the job
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe day the first case of anthrax was revealed, Tommy G. Thompson stood behind a White House lectern and announced that the dying Florida man had swallowed water from a stream, implying the incident was the work of nature rather than terrorists. A...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, University of Miami, Crime, Law and Justice, Anthrax, White House
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'No guarantees' that mail is safe, postmaster says
Sun StaffTrying to reassure postal workers and an anxious public, the postmaster general moved to shore up the U.S. postal system against biological attack -- even suggesting that people should wash their hands after touching their mail. "We're telling people...Tags: Labor Legislation, CNN (tv network), Skin Lesion, Anthrax, Science and Technology
Oct 11, 2001
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Oct 15, 2001
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Sep 24, 2001
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Sep 26, 2001
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Oct 9, 2001
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Sep 26, 2001
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Oct 18, 2001
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Oct 18, 2001
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Oct 18, 2001
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Oct 24, 2001
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Oct 19, 2001
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Oct 25, 2001
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