Word: bulletin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Intelligence from the war front appears to be having an impact on security measures at home. The FBI has sent a classified intelligence bulletin to the nation's state and local law enforcement agencies advising them to be on the lookout for terrorists making toxins such as ricin and botulism. The alert, entitled "Improvised Chemical and Biological Agents," and dispatched this morning (April 2) to 18,000 law enforcement agencies via a secure electronic network, was prompted in part by the discovery of homemade biological toxins in a radical Islamist compound in northeastern Iraq that was raided...
...Recent events including the January, 2003, arrests in the United Kingdom of Algerian extremists apparently attempting to produce ricin toxin in their residences, indicate an ongoing interest among terrorists in developing improvised weapons of mass destruction," the bulletin says. It warns that ricin and other lethal agents can be easily concocted using recipes that can be found on the Internet and ingredients and equipment that can be bought from nurseries, hardware stores and mail order chemical supply houses. The bulletin cites several cases from the 1990s in which U.S. home-grown extremists and crackpots were arrested for making ricin...
...monstrous event was confirmed at Parkland Hospital in small, prosaic episodes. Two priests arrived to give last rites, and coming out of the hospital, one of them blurted, "He's dead, all right." That was the first bulletin of death in a tragedy that was seizing the world, and for four more days would grow and be embedded in history by television saturation the likes of which we had never seen before...
...Berners-Lee took his invention to the people. He posted a message to a newsgroup--a kind of electronic public-access bulletin board--announcing the existence of the "WorldWideWeb (WWW) project." The message included instructions on how to download the very first Web browser from the very first website, http://info.cern.ch. Berners-Lee's computer faithfully logged the exact second the site was launched...
Mass media begat mass hysteria, and the orchestrator was Orson Welles, who moved the setting of the sci-fi novel to New Jersey for a radio drama. Listeners heard a news bulletin break into a music broadcast and describe a meteor that crashed near Princeton and spewed fire-breathing aliens. They didn't seem to hear the network announce four times that it was fiction...