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...seals or for port-worker identification cards. The country has spent $18 billion on making airports more secure since Sept. 11, but it has invested only $630 million to safeguard the nation's ports, even though a study last year by the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard found that almost 70 of the 361 U.S. ports are vulnerable to terrorism...
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...Many of the suggestions mirror things that have been said by people (like Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, who took over the federal response to Katrina after Brown was sent home) who are in a position to know what needs to be done. For instance, the report says the government needs to work with the American Red Cross to create a database for registering evacuees - so that government assistance can follow them from shelter to shelter. That?s something Allen has said for months. It also emphasizes the need for a "culture of preparedness" among regular citizens - another action...
...spends in Iraq in four days, notes STEPHEN FLYNN, whose new book on homeland security, America the Vulnerable, concludes that the U.S. is scandalously unprepared for the next terrorist attack. Why? Because it still doesn't see protecting the homeland as a priority. Flynn, a retired U.S. Coast Guard commander and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says our leaders harbor the delusion that the real fight against terrorism is overseas. In the meantime, the U.S. has made scant progress in protecting its own infrastructure. Having spent years visiting America's high-risk targets, Flynn offers...
...DIED. PETER BENCHLEY, 65, author who made landlubbers of millions with his 1974 novel Jaws, about a great white shark that terrorizes an East Coast resort town; in Princeton, New Jersey. Benchley's tale of a human-chomping fish sold 20 million copies, and the 1975 film adaptation epitomized the summer movie experience. Fascinated by oceans throughout his life, the author eventually became an outspoken protector of sharks. "Knowing what I know now I could never write that book today," Benchley wrote last month. "Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges...