A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack
Salon.com - Fri Nov 27, 8:09 am ETA vast array of establishment and expert sources do not believe this episode was really resolved.
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'The Monster at Our Door'
Pasadena Weekly - Mon Nov 16, 1:23 pm ET'The Monster at Our Door'
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Human Genome Sciences Receives Complete Response Letter from FDA for Raxibacumab Biologics License Application
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Mon Nov 16, 7:00 am ETROCKVILLE, Md.----Human Genome Sciences, Inc. today announced that it has received a Complete Response Letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration relating to the Company’s Biologics License Application requesting the approval of raxibacumab for use in the treatment of inhalational anthrax.
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Official: Powder At NY's Ellis Island Harmless
WCBS-TV New York - Sat Nov 14, 9:16 pm ETA white powder that was found at Ellis Island and caused a brief evacuation at the immigration landmark in New York Harbor has been deemed harmless. Jersey City, N.J., fire official Armando Roman says a hazardous-materials team responded to a call about the powder at the island's immigration museum on Saturday afternoon. The museum was evacuated for about 90 minutes, but visitors didn't have to ...
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Ellis Island museum evacuated after powder found
WCAX-TV Vermont - Sat Nov 14, 9:16 pm ETAssociated Press - November 14, 2009 9:15 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - A white powder that was found at Ellis Island and caused a brief evacuation at the immigration landmark in New York Harbor has...
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Letters with white powder found at two UN consulates
New York Post - Tue Nov 10, 8:36 pm ETTwo "suspicious" letters containing white powere were discovered at different UN consulates today -- a day after diplomatic missions in New York discovered similar letters, authorities said. The latest letter was found at the United Kingdom's UN cons...
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Sniper who terrorized Washington area is executed
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 11, 6:26 am ETJohn Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C., region a year after the September 11 and the deadly anthrax attacks.
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Latest 'thrax scare hits Russians
New York Post - Thu Nov 12, 5:13 am ETA letter containing a suspicious white powder has turned up at a sixth United Nations consulate -- this time at the Russian Mission on the Upper East Side, authorities said. Police responded to a 911 call about the letter at 3:45 a.m. yesterday. ...
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Suspicious Package A False Alarm At Belarus Office
WCBS-TV New York - Wed Nov 11, 1:02 pm ETWhat was initially said to be the seventh report of a powder-laced letter sent to foreign officials in New York City turned out to be a false alarm, CBS 2 has learned. Police were called to 708 Third Avenue, which houses the Consulate General Of The Republic Of Belarus, Wednesday morning, but said there was no suspicious package for investigation. Envelopes containing a non-toxic white powder ...
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A sixth U.N. mission in NY gets white powder letter
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 11, 8:24 am ETRussia became the sixth U.N. mission in New York to receive a letter containing white powder, police said on Wednesday after an envelope was found at the diplomatic post on Manhattan's Upper East Side overnight.
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In Jon we trust
Online Journal - Thu Nov 12, 12:54 am ETAppalled by the Bush administration’s foreign policy, and feeling let down by a compliant news media, many young Americans turned to Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show for some critical insight into what had gone so terribly wrong with their country, as well as some light relief from the horror of it all.
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20th Anniversary Issue
The Memphis Flyer - Thu Nov 12, 6:03 am ETby Michael Finger The final year of the 1980s was a momentous one: The Berlin Wall fell, ending the Cold War; the Exxon Valdez spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Alaska; and there was the uprising in Tiananmen Square. Twenty years ago! In technology, the first GPS satellite was launched; Gameboy was invented; Microsoft Office was released; and DNA evidence was ruled ...
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NYPD: 5th UN mission receives package with powder
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 10, 7:11 pm ETA fifth foreign mission to the United Nations has received an envelope with a suspicious white powder inside, police say.
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White powder mailed to Russian UN mission harmless
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Nov 11, 12:34 pm ETNew York - The Russian mission to the United Nations on Wednesday received an envelope containing a white powder, which was determined to be harmless after an initial test, news reports said. Similar envelopes containing the suspicious powder were di...
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Five U.N. missions in NY get white powder letters
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 10, 4:57 pm ETPolice are investigating letters containing white powder that were sent to five U.N. missions in New York City, but diplomats from the affected countries said on Tuesday that the material was harmless.
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Fifth Foreign Office Receives Powder-Filled Letter
WCBS-TV New York - Tue Nov 10, 7:24 pm ETThere was another anthrax scare on Tuesday. Another letter -- containing white powder -- arrived at the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations. The latest incident brings to five the number of letters that have now been found at foreign missions and consulates near the UN. The terrifying letter campaign that first frightened New Yorkers just Monday night is eerily similar to the 2001 ...