Showing posts with label anthrax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthrax. Show all posts

Saturday, March 26, 2011

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Massachusetts job fair cancelled because of lack of jobs
Things are bad out there.
Solving the 2001 anthrax attacks: Did the feds get the wrong guy? Again?
Maybe says wired.com's Noah Shachtman. I think this story will be the Jack the Ripper story of the early 21st century complete with governmental incompetence, red herrings, false leads, witch-hunts, and mysterious clues that go nowhere or were never followed up. Not to mention the FUD amongst the public and a trail of dead bodies. To date no one has ever been indicted or arrested for these murders.
15,000 year old prehistoric tool-kit found
"The artifacts ... were mostly made from white chert, a popular stone for tools because like onyx it can be flaked into very sharp knife-edges."