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...figuring out where the spores came from. That won't be easy. While new tests on letters received by Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy reveal a genetic fingerprint (called the Ames strain) that's traceable back to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland, officials point out there are as many as 12 private labs that receive military samples for research. Officials are also checking into an ongoing anthrax-development project at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. While the possibility of an Army connection has raised a few eyebrows, investigators...
...country from an intangible and amorphous threat. "Our military forces have been designed primarily to fight a conventional war with a conventional enemy, and we've learned the hard way that as much destruction can be caused by an errant airplane as by a powerful bomb," Wexler told the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in September, just after the attacks...
...rather be here than in Fort Lee, N.J. NBC had a vision of my role there, and I fought against it for three years. I need to be in an organization where I'm respected...
...agents was among those killed during a three-day revolt by Taliban prisoners at a compound near Mazar-i-Sharif. Human-rights groups called for an inquiry into the 500 or so deaths, some of them caused by U.S. air strikes, at the Qala-i-Jangi fort. The incident formed the backdrop to talks in Bonn at which key Afghan parties agreed in principle to the formation of an interim governing body...
...economy in the short term - Wall Street has largely shifted its attention to corporate profits, and has had plenty of time to get used to the idea of disappointment from Washington. But the stimulus package that wasn't (if indeed it isn't) may turn out to be the Fort Sumter of fiscal policy for the rest of the next expansion - and that's something economists and politicians alike should be paying attention...