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...harrowing weeks last fall, a group of U.S. officials believed that the worst nightmare of their lives--something even more horrific than 9/11--was about to come true. In October an intelligence alert went out to a small number of government agencies, including the Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, based in Nevada. The report said that terrorists were thought to have obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon from the Russian arsenal and planned to smuggle it into New York City. The source of the report was a mercurial agent code-named DRAGONFIRE, who intelligence officials believed...
...Administration's $38 billion homeland-security budget proposes a $380 million system to track the entry and exit of noncitizens and gives $282 million to the Coast Guard for protecting ports and coastal areas. This week, sources tell TIME, Ridge's office plans to announce a new color-coded alert system to warn local law enforcement and the public about threats within U.S. borders. Even the military is setting up a new bureaucracy, the U.S. Northern Command, dedicated to defending the homeland. By Oct. 1 the military hopes to put a four-star general in charge of a standing domestic...
Whole villages are sometimes complicit in the sale of their children. The procurers, says Sompop Jantraka, a Thai activist who has saved thousands of girls from being sold into brothels, might be the wives of village heads. Teachers know which children are vulnerable, and some alert procurers for a fee. Sompop has seen pickup trucks leaving schools full of girls sold to brothels in what is called the "green harvest." A police officer is often at the wheel. "This is a war," Sompop says, "a war for our children...
This behavior was consistent with the vision of the same University-wide statement on Rights and Responsibilities that Summers recently interpreted. That document makes clear that “it is the responsibility of officers of administration and instruction to be alert to the needs of the University community; to give full and fair hearing to reasoned expressions of grievances; and to respond promptly and in good faith to such expressions and to widely expressed needs for change...
...just trying to concentrate on the basics and stay mentally alert,” Grumet-Morris said. “Every time a period ends you just want to go out there with a clean slate and focus on winning that 20 minutes...