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...center was calling with news of the shooting at Los Angeles International Airport. Baumgartner, a no-nonsense engineer who was once in charge of fusing and arming Minuteman missiles, snapped into action. First, he had to determine whether the incident was part of a coordinated attack that might directly affect Denver. Satisfied that it wasn't, he went on to assess whether it called for any fundamental rethinking of his airport's security. The short answer is no; even with 240 armed police officers assigned to the airport, along with scores of security people, preventing such random acts...
BARBARA DILIBERTI Age 52 Brooklyn "I absolutely refuse to let this affect my life. We were back at work the next day after September 11th. My life is not going to change one iota...
...sentences. The ruling dissembles the capital punishment laws in five states where the judge makes sentencing decision without jury input - and calls into question the statutes of four others, where juries make a recommendation that the judge can accept or reject. The Court's ruling, which is retroactive, could affect as many as 800 prisoners currently on death...
...Death penalty proponents needn't worry just yet: while Thursday's decision has staggering ramifications for a select number of death penalty cases in the 20 states that still allow executions of mentally retarded prisoners, it does not affect the vast majority of prisoners waiting to be executed...
...Kashmir could easily accelerate into a broader war. The remote but frighteningly thinkable worst-case scenario would see the two sides escalate in stages to an exchange of nuclear weapons. But even short of that unlikely cataclysm, the seriousness of the dispute requires American diplomatic attention and threatens to affect Washington's war on terror, particularly as Pakistan moves troops away from its western border with Afghanistan to the Kashmir front. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is scheduled to visit India and Pakistan this week to lean on both sides. Soon thereafter, it will be Defense Secretary Donald...