Hialeah, Florida-AP -- Florida officials say five people have been hospitalized after opening envelopes containing a mysterious white powder. Officials with the Hialeah Fire-Rescue Department in suburban Miami say one person at an apartment was taken to the hospital today after opening a manila envelope. Yesterday, four people at a house 20 blocks away were exposed to an apparently identical powder mailed in a manila envelope. They contacted authorities today and were hospitalized. Three of them are being treated for low-grade fevers. The F-B-I and emergency officials have quarantined the home, taking the mail as well as the clothing the occupants were wearing at the time. Preliminary testing of the substance could be completed today. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------