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...past 140 years, Billings & Stover has been a drug store that filled prescriptions at the back counter and sold cosmetics, exotic perfumes and ice cream in the front...
Until recently. When business slowed two years ago, Madanian stopped selling drugs and turned the prescription counter into a kitchen. She added a bakery, expanded the cosmetics counter and kept going...
...described by Mueller, will shift its focus to "prevention above all else." The emphasis will move from law enforcement to intelligence and counter-terrorism, and agents will be reassigned from domestic units (where the emphasis is on drug-related and white-collar crime) to ones dealing in terror prevention. The director also wants to add 900 new employees, 500 of whom would work as analysts. This is a sea change for the embattled agency - and an answer to critics who maintain it has wasted its manpower on following up traditional crime rather than preventing new waves of terror. But will...
...Counter-terrorism experts fretted in 1998 that the Clinton administration's bombing of al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan had only served to boost bin Laden's standing by painting him as the man most hated and feared by America. The current wave of warnings certainly suggests to the wider world that bin-Laden continues to spook the U.S., and that's grist to his own propaganda mill...
...attached to the threat warnings: Even if we do our level best on the intelligence and security front, it may not be enough to protect you. That's certainly true. Nothing is guaranteed to keep U.S. citizens safe from terror. Example: Israel has probably the most advanced and experienced counter-terrorism apparatus in the world; it knows exactly who its enemies are and their general location, it often even knows when they're coming, it foils a number of attempted terror strikes from week to week - and yet some suicide bombers get through...