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It has been discovered that the anthrax spores that contaminated Senator Thomas Daschle?s office were treated with a chemical additive so sophisticated that only three nations are capable of making it. Experts in anthrax weapons say they have no doubt that such an additive was present based on the high dispersal rate from the letter sent to Daschle.

?The evidence is patent on its face,? says Alan Zelicoff, a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories? Center for National Security and Arms Control. ?The amount of energy needed to disperse the spores [by merely opening an envelope] was trivial, which is virtually diagnostic of achieving the appropriate coating.?
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Scientists have created a synthetic compound that disables the toxin that makes anthrax so dangerous. Also, a second research team has discovered a gene that protects some mice against anthrax. Together, these discoveries could lead to an antidote to anthrax.

When someone inhales spores of anthrax, the bacteria unleashes 3 proteins that combine to form a poison that causes a sudden fall in blood pressure and internal bleeding, which can lead to coma and death.
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Bubbles can sink floating objects, which suggests that methane bubbles escaping from methane reserves in the seabed might may be the cause for so many vessels disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle.

In order for an object to float, the density of the liquid has to be greater than the density of the object. If you mix enough bubbles into a liquid to lower its average density, an object floating on its surface will sink. This may be why so many ships sank in that area for no obvious reason.
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A Turkish student carrying explosives and a bio-protection suit is being held in Germany after being arrested as he tried to board a flight to Iran. The 29-year-old man, identified as Harun Aydin, was arrested at Frankfurt airport last Wednesday on suspicion of belonging to ?an Islamist terrorist organization planning serious violent attacks,? German prosecutors said. He was carrying both a German and a Turkish passport.
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