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...thinks it's sad. Losing, after all, is common, whether it's not getting to make the Texas high school football movie Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, second cousin of the book's author, got to make it), or having the western that you're still proud of bomb, or watching John Kerry lose an election. "Most of us are losers most of the time, if you think about it," he says...
...America, subway bombs have been around longer than parking meters. Back when terrorists were called "radicals," in 1927, two explosions blasted through two midtown New York City stations late one August night, injuring 12. The bombs went off 10 minutes apart; one was strong enough to rip open the sidewalk on the street above. The city lunged into action. All 14,000 police officers were put on bomb duty to protect the city's water supply and public buildings, reported a New YorkTimes article from the time. Scores of New Yorkers carrying bundles were stopped and searched...
...blasts in London provided a disheartening lesson: crude bomb attacks can kill dozens, even with 6,000 cameras in the subway system and a populace taught by I.R.A. violence to report suspicious bags. But just because Americans can't prevent all bombings doesn't mean they should do nothing--or everything, in feverish, sporadic security binges. "We should all take a deep breath," says Stephen Flynn, a homeland-security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "There is an ongoing threat, and we need a sustained level of involvement...
Most counterterrorism experts don't think high-tech bomb-detection solutions will ever work for public transit. Trains and buses are useful precisely because they are convenient, fast and cheap--and therefore hard to secure. That's why the oft repeated complaint that the government spends far more on aviation security than on transit is a bit of an oversimplification. It's true that the Feds have spent $18 billion on protecting planes and only $250 million exclusively on transit since 9/11. But that's partly because aviation is much easier to secure. And it's also because local officials...
...meantime, says Tom Kelly, spokesman for New York City's transit system, it's a constant struggle to steer clear of expensive gadgetry that doesn't work. For example: "One of the first things everybody said after 9/11 is that you have to run out and buy those bomb-resistant wastebaskets [for subway platforms]," says Kelly. "But then you realize that the blast goes up. So somebody on the platform wouldn't die, but somebody on the sidewalk above would...