11.   But this week most workers are seething over the way the U.S. Postal Service has handled the anthrax threat.

12.   By November, however, prescriptions had fallen to below what doctors had been writing before the anthrax threat.

13.   Canadian news reports said Wal-Mart stores in Massachusetts, Florida, and Tennessee have received similar anthrax threats with Florida postmarks.

14.   Colorado, Kentucky and Tennessee have also been subject to anthrax threats in recent months.

15.   Early mornings were filled with network television fare concerning anthrax threats.

16.   Even without the benefit of such media enlightenment, though, Americans appear to intuitively understand the relative remoteness of the anthrax threat.

17.   For John Nugent, like many others who run abortion clinics, anthrax threats are old hat.

18.   For a second day in a row, House and Senate members give starkly different acccounts of the anthrax threat at the Capitol and what to do about it.

19.   In fact, the gravity of the anthrax threat and the complexities of the cleanup have worn the patience and frayed the tempers of worried senators and their staffs.

20.   In recent days, the Bush administration and leaders on Capitol Hill appeared to lack a coordinated message in responding to the anthrax threat.