The problem with being a news hound

Undertoad · 04-28-2003, 10:54 PM

You come across a story like this:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reu...30428_450.html

OTTAWA/BRASILIA (Reuters) - A crew member of an Egyptian merchant ship has died in northern Brazil, almost certainly from anthrax, after opening a suitcase suspected of containing the deadly bacteria, which he was taking to Canada.

...and it may all be nothing, in which case you don't hear anything for a few days and then you wonder what the story really was.

Or it may be the tip of the iceberg of the biggest history-changing event ever.

04-28-2003, 10:54 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The problem with being a news hound You come across a story like this: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reu...30428_450.html OTTAWA/BRASILIA (Reuters) - A crew member of an Egyptian merchant ship has died in northern Brazil, almost certainly from anthrax, after opening a suitcase suspected of containing the deadly bacteria, which he was taking to Canada. ...and it may all be nothing, in which case you don't hear anything for a few days and then you wonder what the story really was. Or it may be the tip of the iceberg of the biggest history-changing event ever.

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