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To: Jill who wrote (7139)	10/23/2001 8:00:35 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 281500

What is the regular demand on a 1um to 0.1um clean room these days??

To: Jill who wrote (7139)	10/24/2001 2:59:01 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

a little much needed humor from Laughter is the Best Medicine Thread: Subject 7983 The Fall Lineup for Afghani TV (except they don't have TV in Afghanistan) MONDAYS: 8:00 - "Husseinfeld" 8:30 - "Mad About Everything" 9:00 - "Suddenly Sanctions" 9:30 - "3rd Rock From the Sand" 10:00 - "Allah McBeal" TUESDAYS: 8:00 - "Wheel of Terror" 8:30 - "The Price is Right If Usama Says Its Right" 9:00 - "Children Are Forbidden From Saying The Darndest Things" 9:30 - "Afghanistan's Wackiest Public Execution Bloopers" 10:00 - "Buffy The Yankee Imperialist Slayer" WEDNESDAYS: 8:00 - "Who Wants to be a Koran Perverter" 8:30 - "When the Northern Alliance Attacks" 9:00 - "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pita Bread" 9:30 - "Just Shoot Everyone" 10:00 - "Veilwatch" THURSDAYS: 8:00 - "Fatima Loves Chachi" 8:30 - "MUSTASH" 9:00 - "Veronica's Closet Full of Long, Black, Shapeless Dresses and Veils" 9:30 - "Sand Trek" 10:00 - "Moammar & Mindy" FRIDAYS: 8:00 - "Judge Bin Laden" 8:30 - "My Two Baghdads" 9:00 - "Survivor...I hope" 9:30 - "Achmed's Creek" 10:00 - "No-witness News" SATURDAYS: 8:00 - "Let's Mecca Deal" 8:30 - "Taliban Squares" 9:00 - "This Old Tent" 9:30 - "No Sex in the City" 10:00 - "Mullah's Place" SUNDAYS: 8:00 - "Who's Goat Is it Anyway?" 8:30 - "The Bedouin Bunch" 9:00 - "My Three Huns" 9:30 - "The Sultan of Queens" 10:00 - "I Dream of Jihad"

To: Jill who wrote (7139)	10/24/2001 11:51:32 AM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

This was bad politics and bad science. Anthrax requires biosafety level 2 containment, and it was ludicrous for anyone to think that a standard mailing envelope would offer protection against its dispersal. Even before tests were concluded on the spore size, officials were saying there was only a cutaneous hazard, and the DC postal workers were not even tested. Now they are saying that perhaps the letter processing machines may have dispersed the dust. While this is true, the fact is that a 1 micron particle may go right through the paper envelope's fibers, which is why sophisticated filters must be used when handling those materials. On the number of spores needed to cause inhalation anthrax, I've seen reports as high as 40,000. The figure of 8-10,000 is based on an Army study, but I've not found the reference. It may have been the monkey experiments they did at Ft Dietrick many years ago, or perhaps the 1979 accident at Sverdlovsk. I would like to know how that estimate came about. With only one case of human inhalational anthrax in the US in the last quarter century, I would say any estimates are just that.