C.J. Peters is the head of a new bioterrorism center at the University of Texas and a former C.D.C. expert on special pathogens. He speaks my language - that is - he doesn't get hung up on technical terms. But I can't say if I find this comforting, or, uh, worrisome...

"Speculating on how anthrax could escape from a sealed letter, he said, "I think when it went through one of those squishing machines where they flatten it out, if there was even a little hole in it, it may have gotten out"." (As reported in The New York Times - 10/23/01.)