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Officials proceeding cautiously on several anthrax fronts.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
WASHINGTON _ Since authorities have no handbook on how to deal with deadly anthrax spores, which have killed five Americans in the last two months, U.S. investigators and scientists have had to learn by their own mistakes until they get it right.
"That's the way everything has been going," said Richard Rupert, the Environmental Protection Agency's chief scientist and germ killer, as he stood near the Senate Hart Office Building where an anthrax-laden letter infected almost 30 occupants. "We had to develop the technologies we needed on site."
So on Saturday, authorities proceeded cautiously on several fronts:
In Washington, 150 EPA workers began to fumigate the Hart building with toxic gas, hoping to eliminate all traces of anthrax.
At Fort Detrick, Md., investigators donned biohazard suits to practice opening a potent, anthrax-laden letter addressed to Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
And in Connecticut, where the most recent victim died of inhalation anthrax, authorities blew compressed air into her house, hoping to kick up enough dust to find leftover spores that ...
- Plastic & profits: automakers don't have to default to the aftermarket for...
- Magazine article from: Automotive Design & Production Sawyer, Christopher A. November 1, 2007 700+ words
Mass personalization is often mentioned, but rarely implemented. Despite buyer interest in unique trim, add-ons, or appearance pieces, more often than not it is the aftermarket that fulfills these desires. Cost is the most quoted reason for the abyss between dream and reality at the OEM, but it is
- Mystery of Rupert Holmes is how he does it all _ and on little sleep.
- Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) December 29, 2004 700+ words
...latest effort, "Swing," reveals a lot about the mind of Rupert Holmes, a man inclined to make things a little more complicated...novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." (EDITORS: BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM) Unfortunately, it has no ending. Dickens died before he...
- Rupert Resources Crown Diamond Mine Agreement.
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 19, 1997 700+ words
...BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1997-- Rupert Resources Ltd (VSE:RUP.) Rupert Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce the signing of the formal legally binding agreement whereby Rupert can earn up to a 75 percent interest in subsurface...
- Rupert loses his bearings
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London David J Brazier November 24, 1995 700+ words
...needed that society is morally adrift, Rupert Bear has lost faith in law-abiding...To mark the extent of the change in Rupert, let me take you back to the annuals...continue to sanction the production of Rupert annuals when all other such publications...
- Rupert Resources Ltd. - Mexican Gold Property Acquisition Completed -...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 2, 1996 700+ words
...BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1996-- RUPERT RESOURCES LTD.(VSE:RUP) Rupert Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that it...1910 at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Rupert's field crews have panned gold at numerous...
- Rupert Resources Acquires Interest in Crown Diamond Mine in South Africa.
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 3, 1997 700+ words
...Reprocessing Operation; Special Warrant Financing Arranged Rupert Resources Ltd. (VSE:RUP.) Rupert Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement whereby Rupert can earn up to a 75 percent interest in the subsurface mineral...
- Rupert Murdoch names himself publisher of the New York Post.
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) August 4, 2005 700+ words
...York Post and heir apparent to father Rupert Murdoch's media empire, according to a securities filing made yesterday. Rupert Murdoch also has named himself Post...week on family tensions. They said Rupert Murdoch, 74, undermined Lachlan...
- The Part of Prince Rupert.
- Magazine article from: Alaska Business Monthly SCHMITZ, RICHARD F. April 1, 2000 700+ words
...western British Columbia community of Prince Rupert, its namesake being the first governor...mourned across the continent. Prince Rupert never lived up to Hays' grand plans as...however, the modern Port of Prince Rupert is working hard to bring Hays' vision...
