1.   Authorities are still awaiting lab results to determine whether the letter actually contained the deadly anthrax bacterium.

2.   Bailey, testifying before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Human Resources, said exposure to deadly anthrax bacteria is a major threat to U.S. forces.

3.   But just a short while ago, it seemed unlikely terrorists could acquire and deliver deadly anthrax spores.

4.   But they became terrorist suspects in a strange Friday afternoon last week where reports of deadly anthrax seemingly were everywhere.

5.   Despite tighter safeguards in the past few years, a determined terrorist could probably obtain deadly anthrax bacteria, perhaps without leaving the country, specialists said Thursday.

6.   Femcare was one of numerous clinics that last month received packages said to contain potentially deadly anthrax bacteria.

7.   First aid during terrorism is not an easy thing to plan, and the discovery of deadly anthrax spores in the mail a few weeks later provided more lessons.

8.   For their part, FBI officials said they had fully shared what they knew about the deadly anthrax.

9.   If e-mail took the urgency out of old-fashioned US mail, the threat of deadly anthrax poisoning is rendering it even less important.

10.   In unusually blunt language, Pentagon officials Wednesday acknowledged the failure of their ambitious policy to inoculate all military personnel against the deadly anthrax virus.