1.   A government spokesman said later that the powder was being tested and that the results would not be available until Tuesday.

2.   Minutes later, after testing the powder, they got a simulated reading.

3.   Officials said the powder was being tested.

4.   The fire department hosed the men down, gave them clean clothes and suited them in white protective outfits while the powder was tested.

5.   Police suspected it to be a prank, but were testing the powder to see if it posed a biochemical threat.

6.   A spokesman for the American University of Beirut, Ibrahim Khoury, said the powder was being tested.

7.   Another student took the envelope to the principal, and the powder was tested and determined not to be an illegal drug.

8.   Col. James Windsor, second in command at Bahraini civil defense, said the powder was being tested for anthrax.

9.   Embassy spokesman Ian Kelly said the powder was being tested.

10.   In Venezuela, health officials were testing a powder found Tuesday in an envelope sent to a Caracas woman.