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...from? Who sent them? Are there more contaminated letters still in circulation? While little is known for sure, the ongoing investigation has yielded some clues as to the bacteria's origin. Meanwhile, health officials are offering some workers a new way to keep anthrax - and, they hope, fear - at bay...
While Harvard has advanced its own afterschool goals—the overall partnership, which includes the city of Boston, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Liberty Mutual, Verizon and FleetBoston Financial—has been moving slowly...
...biggest factor of all--the one that has throughout American history held authoritarianism at bay--is popular opinion. In the post-World War I Palmer Raids, 6,000 people were rounded up after a series of bombings by suspected anarchists, one of which destroyed Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's home. As the threat of violence abated, popular opinion turned against the raids and in favor of greater political freedoms...
...anything other than a person's knowledge of criminal activities; the Justice Department memo requested interviewees to give their families' phone numbers, their reaction to terrorism and their travel history. Police departments in several other Oregon cities also refused to participate, and those in most cities in California's Bay Area say they probably won't cooperate if asked. "We would not do INS interviews or roundups given the facts we have now," says San Jose police chief William Lansdowne. "We're here for the long term." Rather than arguing with local cops, overburdened FBI agents are flying...
...Despite his mass media ubiquity over the past several days, Walker remains a mystery. Here's what we know: He comes from a well-to-do home in suburban San Francisco. We've learned that an adolescent fascination with Islam led to his conversion and subsequent embrace of the Bay Area Muslim community. This interest, in other words, was not a passing fancy. After his high school graduation, Walker's passion for his adopted religion spurred trips to Yemen and later to Pakistan, where he was last heard from in May of this year...