And most of the costly and time-consuming preliminary screening is taken care of by the software or social application.

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Parties interested in buying the government's stake that pass the preliminary screening will have to make their ideas known in business plans.

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Preliminary tests on filters at a government mail-screening facility also indicated the presence of ricin Wednesday morning, and mail from that site also was being tested, the FBI said.

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