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To: mistermj who wrote (2234)	1/14/2003 9:44:40 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

New anthrax scare reported Last Updated: 15 Jan 2003 02:30 GMT reuters.co.uk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Traces of deadly anthrax bacteria have been found at the centre that checks mail addressed to the Federal Reserve in Washington D.C., U.S. Postal Service officials have said. "The Federal Reserve routinely tests mail delivered to its headquarters in Washington in a secure facility," Thomas Day, vice president of engineering for the U.S. Postal Service, told a news conference on Tuesday. He said the suspect item did not enter the Federal Reserve headquarters. "We have a single test result from one sample out of many that are done over at the Federal Reserve," Day said. "This appears to be a very isolated incident and it is not clear at all specifically what, if any, piece of mail this came from." He said the Postal Service was now doing precautionary testing for anthrax at the Washington mail facility which handles mail going to all federal offices in the city. Day said there was no evidence of broad contamination or of risk to employees at the mail facility. "There's absolutely nothing that indicates we have a contamination problem here," he said. The Postal Service said it expected results of the tests at its facility early on Wednesday. CNN: edition.cnn.com

To: mistermj who wrote (2234)	1/15/2003 5:16:18 AM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Anyone care to identify the author of this passage? As we sink into the chaos of fundamentalist power groups(Christian/Muslim/Judaic) dragging we souls of reason into their quagmire <<The conflict of reason versus mysticism is the issue of life or death — or freedom or slavery — or progress or stagnant brutality. . . . Reason is the only objective means of communication and of understanding among men; when men deal with one another by means of reason, reality is their objective standard and frame of reference. But when men claim to possess supernatural means of knowledge, no persuasion, communication or understanding is possible.> the answer is: As Ayn Rand wrote in Philosophy: Who Needs It, in her prescient 1960 essay "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World"