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...through pre-approved scientific tools. I had watched a coming-together, but it also made me sharply aware of a growing-apart, as the crowd that had so easily formed suddenly and easily dispersed. I was a little sad to return to my frigid office, with the constant background chatter of computer keys, and wrap up the event by writing my story. I wondered what it would be like to go to the moon instead, and look back on earth for that one day each century, to see the world eclipsed by the people coming out of their self-constructed...
...Muzak at the glitzy Grand Indonesia mall competed with the chatter from shoppers taking advantage of a national holiday to stroll through one of Southeast Asia's largest malls. Last Friday, July 17, a pair of bombs ripped through two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, killing seven innocent people (plus the two suicide bombers). Yet by July 20 local residents appeared to be returning to life as normal. Indonesia had enjoyed a four-year lull in terrorist attacks, in part chalked up to a concerted government campaign to arrest and re-educate extremists. Although the blasts jolted...
...burner issue," says the official. Another retired official familiar with the details of the secret program says, "It would have been a big deal if it was operational, but since it was not, it's not a big deal." (Watch TIME's video about the risks of relying on chatter...
...insists it has no knowledge of any concrete plans for a terrorist attack in Germany, it's clear the authorities are concerned that Islamic-extremist activity is intensifying. Germany's security forces have been on high alert since the beginning of the year, and government authorities believe that intelligence chatter about a possible terrorist attack on Germany has been getting louder...
...Parents in Britain have long held "chicken pox parties" at the beginning of summer so that children could catch the disease at a convenient time. But recent chatter on various Internet sites has health officials worried that parents are planning similar events for swine flu in order to make their children immune to the virus should it mutate into a more lethal form. In a statement on Tuesday, Sir Liam Donaldson, Britain's Chief Medical Officer, said such parties were the result of "seriously flawed thinking." (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...