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...fear in the current crisis is that terrorists might have got hold of enough RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL to make a so-called dirty bomb. What would happen to victims? In an issue with a cover story on global warming, TIME told about an incident in which cesium-137 was found in a discarded piece of medical equipment...
...meantime, the agency is about to impose a new requirement that airlines do so-called positive bag matches, which are already common overseas. That means airlines will have to match every bag on a flight with a passenger, to ensure that no one can place a bag with a bomb on a plane and then fail to board it. The FAA move will be over the objection of U.S. airlines, which have argued that such bag matching is impractical in a system that handles 1.4 billion bags a year, and of dubious value in an age of suicide bombers...
...machismo was a fault and the military an archaic and expensive nuisance. The N.P. admires strong men and manly virtues--courage and self-sacrifice. In the Vietnam years, the massive "daisy-cutter" bomb represented everything brutal and inhumane about the American war; in Afghanistan last week, it seemed just another useful weapon...
Toronto police evacuated a donut shop last week after someone reported that a pipe bomb was in the mens room. Fear abated when they discovered it was actually a vibrator after they examined the black pipe...
...fear our response to this tragedy has been to bomb innocent people in Afghanistan, to starve them to death and drive them from their homes when most of them hate the Taliban as much as we do. I am terrified that we have answered this tremendous loss of human life with more loss of human life. I am scared of bombing Red Cross buildings and of starving refugees mistaking unexploded bombs for our aid packages. I’m terrified by the horrific cycle of violence we are perpetuating on foreign soil. And I am terrified of the retaliation...