What color are anthrax spores anyway?

[measl at mfn.org]

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. 

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Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at 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...
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