IT HAS to be one of the greatest losses of all time to journalism, to history, to human culture. One of the buildings hit with anthrax spores in 2001, by a bioterrorist who is still at large, was the headquarters of The National Enquirer and its sister paper, the Weekly World News, in Boca Raton, Florida. Before anyone realised the risk, vacuum cleaners had blown the tiny, tough spores throughout the building, which eventually had to be gutted and disinfected. Sometime this month it will open again. But in a loss that must rank…
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