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Business and political leaders in the U.S., Canada and Russia are mulling a plan to build a railroad tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. A rail link, they say, could carry 30 billion tons of cargo a year and cut shipping time from Los Angeles to Vladivostok as much as two weeks. It's an attainable feat: the strait is only 60 miles wide at its narrowest point (twice as wide as the English Channel Tunnel, which took seven years and $15 billion to construct). But to make the Bering tunnel accessible on the North American side, connecting lines would have...
...prevent weapons of mass destruction from crossing our borders, the new Homeland Security Agency must knit together America's border-control services, increasing the number of vehicles and cargo containers inspected at our entry points. Inspectors must be focused on the most likely targets and trained to carry out their missions with the least possible disruption to international commerce. Though the agency should not have intelligence-collection responsibilities, it should be able to command special priority in focusing intelligence on threats to the homeland, so that crucial information gets where it needs to go, and gets there on time...
AIRCRAFT 10 Su-22 fighter-bombers, 5 MiG-21 fighters, 10 transport helicopters and 40 cargo planes...
...when the men boarded American Flight 77, the airline had never been warned or provided with their names. Ridge will look for ways to improve both detection and communication. Border security is expected to be an early focus. But with 1.3 million people, 340,000 vehicles and 58,000 cargo containers entering the country every day, he'll need truckloads of money to improve...
AIRCRAFT 8 transport helicopters, 3 cargo airplanes...