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Forty people underwent precautionary decontamination last night after a suspicious white powder was mailed to the Midtown diplomatic outposts of three countries. There were no reported injuries in what officials suspect was an elaborate hoax. The ...
We live is a scary world, there’s no doubt about it. Or maybe there is. Maybe it just seems scary because the media (um, which I’m part of, I guess) takes great delight in portraying things like shower mold and day-old bread as harbingers of doom on a par with nuclear war and universal Armageddon.
Envelopes containing suspicious powder were sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan on Monday, but initial tests suggested the mailings were a hoax, police officials said.