By MATTHEW D. LAPLANTE, Salt Lake Tribune

From lifeblood to lifesaver: how Anthrax Immune Globulin is made -- and how it might work.

- Military members and veterans who have received the anthrax vaccine give plasma.

- The plasma is frozen, shipped to a laboratory, screened for infections and combined with plasma from other donors.

No one knows whether a serum being developed by a Canadian drugmaker will help victims of anthrax exposure.

But under a contract signed in the wake of 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is paying the company more than $14,000 per dose of its anthrax immune globulin -- which is years away from licensure.

SALT LAKE CITY -- For years, Veronica Diaz-Guerra had told her mother that she was going to join the military.

But when Diaz, still a few weeks shy of her 18th birthday, finally asked her mom to sign the papers permitting her enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps, Ofelia Guerra was hesitant.

SALT LAKE CITY -- At the time, he just wanted to go home.

And so Clinton Sagers didn't push the matter when -- after being liberated from a prisoner of war camp in Mulberg, Germany, and then returned home to Rush Valley, Utah -- the Army failed to present him with a Purple Heart medal for the wounds he suffered in the Battle of the Bulge.

Surveillance. Rendition. Torture.

According to some, the Bush administration has been bad for civil liberties.

The deadliest attack by international terrorists in U.S. history was carried out by men whose weapons of choice were simple box cutters. The worst domestic attack was brought on by a man driving a truck full of fertilizer.

The Defense Department has made a poor effort to locate and contact thousands of people exposed to chemical and biological agents during a series of secret tests in the 1960s and '70s, according to a newly released federal report.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A prominent leader from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has implored Utah's overwhelmingly Mormon Legislature to "slow down, step back and carefully study and assess the implications and human costs involved" in a slew of immigration bills they are considering.

Army Officer Curtis Whiteford was warned by his wife against taking unearned cash from a contractor in Iraq, and he promised her in an e-mail that he would end his part in the corruption, according to documents filed earlier this month in federal court.

SALT LAKE CITY -- When Maria Braman's marriage ended shortly after she joined the Army, she had trouble finding anyone to whom she could relate.