1.   -- In suburban Maryland, a journalist was hospitalized with symptoms consistent with anthrax but medical tests to confirm the disease were not scheduled to be ready until Friday.

2.   A final draft should have been ready a year ago, but will not now be ready until Easter.

3.   But a federal official said this weekend that the factory might not be ready until the end of November or early December.

4.   But even if they do, a pipeline would not be ready until four years after that.

5.   But Pulsipher felt another twinge in his elbow while soft-tossing on Thursday and may not be ready until late April.

6.   El Paso, Texas, and Baltimore, Md., both reported they will not be ready until December.

7.   He said Apple is also developing a less expensive Powerbook for consumers and students, but it will not be ready until sometime next year.

8.   He said that the company, blindsided by the announcement, was scrambling to analyze its data, and would not have it ready until Tuesday.

9.   He is just happy that he will be in the rotation, after Yankees officials speculated for months that he might not be ready until the end of May.

10.   He said that the one situation that might change his plans would be if the statement was not ready until just a few days before the election.