B3 Anthrax Investigation A CHANGING INQUIRY -- Just a few days ago, it seemed possible that the spate of anthrax infections could be largely traced to a single, potent letter that traveled from New Jersey to Washington.
Federal investigators -- so thorough that they have matched the serrated ends of the tape used to seal the letters, proving that they were sealed one after the other from a single roll of tape -- have discovered that the spores grew more potent letter by letter.
No song last year was a more potent love letter to Chicago than "Angels" ("Got my city doing front flips" and "City so damn great I feel like Alexand'").
Deepening the mystery of the biological attacks that terrified the nation last fall, federal investigators have discovered that the anthrax sent through the mail, in general, grew more potent from one letter to the next, with the spores in the final letter to be opened -- the one sent to Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont -- the deadliest of all.
A more potent anthrax-laden letter, to Senator Patrick Leahy, was found on November 16th; but that seems to be the last such letter in a huge batch of congressional mail that was quarantined on October 15th (after the discovery of a poisoned letter to Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader).
A3 World Briefing A14 NATIONAL A20-28 Anthrax Got More Potent With Each Letter Sent Federal investigators have discovered that the anthrax sent through the mail, in general grew more potent from one letter to the next, with the deadliest spores in the final letter, to Senator Patrick J. Leahy.
The view of Mr. Gravante, a partner in the firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, is that the 1995 letter is potent evidence that the Diebenkorn family never objected to the drawings' authenticity until now.
B3 The Anthrax Threat A POWERFUL GRADE: The anthrax bacteria mailed to the Senate majority leader's was in a highly potent form, and the letter bore strong similarities to the one sent to the NBC offices in New York, officials said.
The letters felt potent somehow, maybe simply because they weren't e-mails.
Red-faced and humiliated, I pulled her aside and said, "Shhhh, Yassi, we do not scream these things at school". And so, an expletive was born, much more potent than any four-letter word.
Health officials said the bacteria that killed her proved indistinguishable from that previously seen, notably the potent strain sent in a letter to Senator Tom Daschle.
