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...departure site of two of the hijacked flights, the airport’s usual assignment of 40 state troopers has been supplemented by 50 deputy U.S. marshals and more than 100 National Guard members carrying M-16 rifles. Boston Harbor is under the control of a Florida-based U.S. Coast Guard port security team and the harbor has been closed to liquefied natural gas tankers...
...comes from California's Red Ink Press. Like the East Coast's Highwater Books, with which it has an affiliation, Red Ink amounts to one guy, Jordan Crane, who has discovered the gospel of high-end, handcrafted comicbooks. This issue's silk-screened cover wraps completely around and under the nearly two-inch thick contents. When completely unfolded it turns into a 30-inch long pink and yellow panorama. Underneath the cover sits a thick book with a simple, geometrical patterned cover. Pick it up and you discover underneath, nestled in a cutout hollow of thick cardboard, a smaller book...
...weapons of mass effect." The planes that flew into the World Trade Center were just such weapons. They were "conventional," in a sense, but designed to cause great loss of life and spread chaos and despair. The hijackers didn't need sophisticated technology. Nor may their successors. The East Coast power grid, for example, has less than half a dozen key switching points. Six truck bombs, packed with nothing more sophisticated than the fertilizer that blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City six years ago, could disrupt the economy of half the nation...
...Security Agency, one created by statute, with budgetary authority, whose director would be confirmed by the Senate and stand accountable to the President and Congress. This new agency, to be effective, must be even more powerful than the one President Bush proposes: it must include within its control the Coast Guard, Customs Service, border patrol, Federal Emergency Management Agency and elements of at least three dozen other federal offices. Let me explain why these powers are so important...
...there, hire a fat-tired Japanese jeep at $15 a day from any of a host of rental places in the main tourist town of Senggigi on the west coast. Gas is cheap, around $6 for a tank, which should be almost enough for a complete island tour. Two hours inland is Tetebatu, a small village on Rinjani's southern slope that offers clear views up to the volcano. Hotels are cheap and cheerful. A cut above the rest is the Hotel Soedjono, an old Dutch colonial house with rooms, plus outlying cottages, most with glorious vistas of the terraces...