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...every Muslim fanatic who wants to blow himself up for Allah, either. But we're giving it a try. Shouldn't we also try to be sure that cities like New York and Washington are prepared to deal with biological and chemical attacks; that the major ports - like Long Beach, Calif.--are protected; that nuclear-power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants are guarded? Apparently, there has been precious little progress on any of these fronts. "The Administration just hasn't made the commitment to homeland security that it has to national security," Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Calif., meanwhile, is at work on a new explosive-detection technology that some analysts believe could one day give L-3 a run for its money. "It's possible that new technology could render L-3's obsolete," says Christopher Tavares, an analyst for MetroTrading, a brokerage in Deerfield Beach, Fla. "To stay competitive, L-3 will have to continue to develop new product lines...
...over a dramatic increase in illegal - that is, unapproved - West Bank settlements: 70 new outposts in Palestinian areas, many of them tended by religious extremists. Palestinians regard these settlements about the same way as Israelis do suicide bombers. As for the political argument, well, it's ... Florida. Specifically, Palm Beach County, where the Karl Roveian hope is that all those perplexed elderly Jewish Pat Buchanan voters will butterfly over to the Republican column in 2004. "The President's policy has earned him wide respect in the Jewish community," a religious leader told...
...Chuck Eastlake, a professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, agrees, adding that despite increased automation of in-flight procedures and even experiments, the importance of human intellect cannot be discounted. "If I were personally in charge of a mission," he says, "I would feel far more confident of success if there were a person on board to deal with contingencies...
...DIED. BILL MAULDIN, 81, American army sergeant turned Pulitzer prizewinning cartoonist; in Newport Beach, California. Mauldin's unconquerable GIs Willie and Joe inspired and immortalized the courage of American soldiers in World War II. After the war, Mauldin became a syndicated cartoonist and won his second Pulitzer for depicting Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak saying to another prisoner: "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime...