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...Washington Post reports that government experts know that lots of lives might be saved in the next terrorist attack if people had certain basic information: how to seal a room with duct tape or avoid radiation from a dirty bomb. But they don't trust people with the information, the paper quotes an official as saying, because "we're not in the business of terrifying the public." So members of Congress have evacuation routes, but the general population does not, despite the fact that a year ago the premise that people panic in a crisis was put to the ultimate...
...October, as the U.S. began its Afghan-bombing campaign, public opinion in Pakistan turned against America. Sana did too. At stoplights near the Lahore bazaar, she saw vendors hawking bin Laden shirts and posters. She watched protesters spill into the streets, and though she didn't buy the bin Laden paraphernalia or attend the bin Laden demonstrations, she found herself agreeing with him. "This was hypocrisy. Why is an Afghan's life worth any less than an American's?" she asks. She felt revulsion at the U.S. air strikes, which left hundreds of Afghans dead and thousands more wounded...
...minutes after he was subdued. Then the crew's first reserve officer brought the shoes into the cockpit. Thinking there was a knife inside, he found instead a wire protruding--and a burn mark. Hastily, the crew put both shoes in a safe place reserved on all planes for bomb disposal. The FBI later reported that one shoe had enough plastic explosives to blow a hole in the plane's fuselage. "Yet nobody went and curled up into a ball in the corner. Nobody started opening up minis [of liquor] and said, 'I'm going to get drunk,'" says Jones...
...scrutinizes passengers more closely. On an international flight, a man who spoke no English got up before the plane taxied into the gate, and started walking into the business-class section. "He was coming right at me," says Jones. Crew members made him sit down, but Jones, fearing a bomb, went further and--on her own--ordered a full aircraft interior search after passengers disembarked. "Now I'm more involved in the situation," she says. "I make sure everything is checked; bins are opened before takeoff. I'm proactive...
...Detroit-Windsor tunnel. "All I've seen in him," says his wife Linda, "is greater determination." On April 26, Linda awoke around 4 a.m. to find Ben sitting up talking on the phone. A suspicious briefcase had been left in the middle of the parking lot. "Call the bomb squad," Anderson said. "I'll be right in." Before she had wiped the sleep from her eyes, he was up and dressed and heading downtown. By the time he arrived, the bag was cordoned and the bomb dogs were circling it. They didn't alert. The bag contained only paperwork...