1.   But Bobbie Bender, a Sun news assistant, opened and discarded the letter, so it was never turned over to investigators.

2.   Friday, an NBC news assistant in New York tested positive for skin- contact anthrax.

3.   He became a news clerk and then a news assistant, a role that included handling local reporting assignments.

4.   Prager began working at the Journal four years ago as a news assistant sorting faxes in the newsroom.

5.   Rosenthal began his career as a news assistant on the foreign desk of The New York Times.

6.   Though her first job as a news assistant paid little, it got her to headquarters in Atlanta, where she quickly made herself known to top management.

7.   Executive Editor Janet Weaver said she also paid bonuses to news assistants for avoiding mistakes in compiling listings.

8.   Foreign news bureaus cannot hire Vietnamese journalists and are assigned translators and news assistants trained by the government.