Some More Spores?

The fear that began in a newsroom in Florida and spread to Capitol Hill, New York City and New Jersey has now jumped to far-off Karachi, the commercial capital of Pakistan. Two weeks ago, in the newsroom of Pakistan's largest daily newspaper, the 1-million-circulation Jang, a 32-year-old business reporter ripped open a hand-delivered envelope he assumed to be a press release. Then he panicked. "There is powder," he cried, recoiling and flinging the letter onto his desk. "It has powder!" The paper's management sent the letter for tests at Karachi's respected Aga Khan University Hospital, but reporters and other staff continued...

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