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...million from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, of which the Smithsonian Observatory is a major component, to the National Science Foundation. The money goes towards the observatory’s staff salaries and equipment, and the cuts would severely jeopardize the observatory’s ability to conduct meaningful, ongoing scientific research...
Assessments of a President's conduct in the crucible of war cannot usefully be made until many years have passed, say 30 at a minimum, or more safely 50 or even 100. Until the longer-term consequences become clear, we cannot know if his decisions were right or wrong strategically. Until then we can only make operational assessments. And here matters are a good deal more straightforward...
...client privilege for those suspected of being terrorists and detained thousands of Arab men without due process. He has granted himself the power to try terrorist suspects in secret military tribunals rather than in open civilian court, and he has signed orders eliminating some of the restrictions governing the conduct of CIA operatives abroad. He even signed an order making it more difficult for historians to get access to presidential papers...
That means smoking out the bad guys before they reach the planes. To the airlines, this suggests using newly trained screeners to conduct criminal profiling. But profiling is still a hot button, even with an Administration that has asked for--and received--increased investigative power. "Absolutely not," Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta recently told 60 Minutes. Terrorism experts say profiling is absolutely necessary, but Mineta, who as a child was interned in a wartime camp for Japanese Americans, won't budge...
...else (like comfort) second; a system of inspection, mechanical redundancies and training builds concentric rings of safety around a tube of metal filled with humans. Says McKenna: "We've created a system in which everyone involved with a flight understands that he or she is responsible for the safe conduct of that flight, and most people take that responsibility seriously. If we can do that with security, American passengers will be very secure." If we don't, we now know what we can expect...