If properly dispersed through the air, just a few hundred pounds of anthrax powder could endanger tens of thousands of people.

The court held that the executor had properly dispersed all but slightly more than $7,000 of Haywood's assets.

Haitians have started to self-organize their refugee camps, to provide order, so that aid can be properly dispersed into the camps.

Dr. Matthew Meselon, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, said that two pounds of anthrax, properly dispersed, could kill people over an area of about 250 acres.

In time, scientists based at Fort Detrick, Md., learned to "make botulinum toxin so concentrated that a pound of it, if properly dispersed, could in theory kill a billion people," the authors write.

And, Rhyssa could hear his smug satisfaction, the others are properly dispersed.

In her report to the Secretary of State the inspector concluded that the additional pollution would be small and that the design of the plant was such that the emission should he odourless, the sulphur dioxide properly dispersed, the grit and dust unharmful to local residents.

Several environmental consultants, residents and doctors have asked that a year-long study of the proposed site be conducted, to make sure that any toxins emitted from the plant's twin 213-foot-smokestacks would be properly dispersed into the atmosphere rather than settling in the valley.

A hundredth of that amount could, if properly dispersed, infect a population of a million or more.