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I am relieved that the U.S. government and the media are addressing the threat of a terrorist attack using nuclear weapons [TERRORISM, Nov. 12]. The only real obstacle to such an assault would be obtaining fissionable material. No infiltration, truck rental, border crossing or complex delivery system would be needed...
The A.N.C. now seems set on pushing legislation through parliament to encourage such political defections. In return for crossing the floor, Van Schalkwyk and a few others of his party are likely to be offered posts by the A.N.C. in national and provincial governments while the Democratic Party - still in...
And then we had, as Barton Biggs of Morgan Stanley calls it, "a bolt from the blue." A strike right at the heart of world capitalism. And it was a pretty good shot: it leveled two of the biggest buildings in the U.S. and shut down the New York Stock...
Scanning: Amsterdam's Schipol airport has installed an "automated border crossing" system using eye scanners made by American firm Iridian Technologies and Dutch company Joh. Enschede Security Solutions. These "biometric" tools can identify an individual by the unique pattern of his or her iris.
The audience laughed at the prospect of being lured into writing by dimestore novels with shapely, off-color Fallen Women on the cover, but quickly became quiet at what Atwood said next. Her decision to become a writer, she recounted, “simply happened in 1956 while I was...