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...kept working. On Wednesday, more than two dozen workers on Capitol Hill tested positive for exposure, and members of Congress began to fret. The bacteria is "very potent and clearly produced by someone who knows what he or she is doing," said Senate leader Daschle. Those alarm bells were prematurely silenced, though, by Tom Ridge, the country's new Director of Homeland Security. "There's no results that would suggest that it has been quote, weaponized, unquote." But 40 members of Daschle's office were treated, as was everyone on the surrounding two floors...
...Landing, assumes a Bruckheimeresque bravura. Modeled loosely on the 1970 disaster epic Airport, this reworking and its often realistic digital effects suggest China's sense of cinema as solid commercial entertainment has arrived. The film is a wake-up call to the country's domestic industry and should set alarm bells ringing in the rest of the world...
...Frankfurt, where there is a big Islamic scene, there was a danger the terrorists could come to the attention of state agencies while attending a mosque or Islamic meetings," said a police official. The run-down al-Quds mosque, where the terrorists worshiped, didn?t set off any alarm bells, although Bahaji had come under surveillance briefly in 1998. A Hamburg-based Syrian entrepreneur, Mamoun Darkanzli, who had ties to a bin Laden money man, also attended the mosque without police notice...
...Barely two weeks after Washington sounded a similarly opaque alarm based on nonspecific information, no one seemed to have a good answer. Just as we were getting used to what the Bush Administration is calling the "new normalcy," civilians and law enforcement alike braced for what they feared might be another horrifying strike on the home front. Before, they had trained watchful eyes on the weapon of the week, from crop dusters to haz-mat trucks; cops and civilians now had to view anything and everything with suspicion. The new normalcy was being redefined every minute...
...points out with alarm what he perceives as the leanings of Cambridge’s current City Council to interfere with private property rights, and says he will relax zoning laws and simplify permit processes to allow more rapid development by property owners in Cambridge...