1.   Sorting machines incorporating microprocessors have been ordered in the past few weeks to upgrade rice, coffee and groundnuts.

2.   The automatic sorting machines cannot always cope with colored envelopes.

3.   Twenty staff walked out yesterday when a colleague was suspended for refusing to use a sorting machine in Bristol.

4.   But in the last two years, Wilke says, he has come to believe that the sorting machines were a good choice.

5.   But the Postal Service continued to maintain Monday that Morgan Station was safe except for the portion of the third floor with the four contaminated sorting machines.

6.   By checking computer records left by the bar codes, the investigators were able to identify letters that sped through the sorting machines at the same time.

7.   CDC workers began testing sorting machines for anthrax in Brentwood that night, but not workers.

8.   Decontamination of the three sorting machines in the main postal plant should begin today, Cleborne said, and take only a couple of hours.

9.   Did an extra pass that the Leahy letter took through postal sorting machines crumble its anthrax into smaller, more friable bits than that in the Daschle letter?

10.   He modified a cell sorting machine so that it would detect it.