Boca Raton, Fla.
A cleanup crew this week finally fumigated the former Florida headquarters of a supermarket tabloid that was the first target in the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five people. The deaths rattled an already shocked nation a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The first anthrax spores were mailed to American Media Inc., which publishes the Sun and The National Enquirer. A photo editor, Bob Stevens, died. The building has been quarantined ever since, the cleanup delayed because of red tape and the sale of the property. It will soon have a new tenant—former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s crisis management firm, BioONE. “It will be a symbol that we can deal with these new risks that we live with in our new world,” Giuliani said.
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