11.   One way to do that would be for the government to hold contaminated areas longer and limit access and use.

12.   Other steps to minimize exposure once agents have been detected include decontamination stations for people and equipment, and battlefield sensors to identify contaminated areas to be avoided.

13.   People who handled a contaminated letter or were in a contaminated area are prescribed anthrax-preventing antibiotics on that basis alone.

14.   The houses stand on the periphery of the contaminated area and were bought by the government when Love Canal became so infamous that property values plummeted to zero.

15.   The military does not routinely conduct environmental studies to identify contaminated areas, as it does domestically.

16.   The new method, which underwent a year and a half of testing, can be used on contaminated areas smaller than one inch across, the USDA said.

17.   The rescuer or the medical attendant must have adequate protection before entering a contaminated area.

18.   While officials have capped contaminated areas underwater before, they have never done so at such depths or over such a wide area.

19.   Workers were attempting to insert hoses into the contaminated area to drench it with special chemicals to absorb the radiation.

20.   Philippine groups that opposed the U.S. military presence have charged that the Americans failed to properly clean up chemically contaminated areas.