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...Danger's Warning Signs Amanda Ripley's "Can we spot the threat?" questions our ability to identify a terrorist attack before it occurs [July 16]. We cannot spot terrorism, and we never could. If we were able to spot it, the Sept. 11 attacks and the London rail bombings would not have occurred. Some terrorists were apprehended before they could cause any real damage, but government officials usually do not have the situation under control. Terrorists - amateurs and professionals alike - will continue to strike when we least expect it and in places we are unlikely to look. The U.S. government...
Exposure to toxins is another danger for the 235,000 laundry and dry-cleaning workers nationwide, Forms of nonyl phenol ethoxylate (NPEs), chemicals commonly found in U.S. detergents, have been shown to cause fish to change gender and are banned in the European Union and Canada. On June 5, laundry workers petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide health and safety protections from NPEs. Currently, the EPA's guidelines on chemicals date back to 1985, and do not reflect recent research on NPEs...
...city of Cambridge, meanwhile, has not taken such an active stand against this environmental danger...
...confidently on dead-end side-tracks and feel most lost mere feet from their goal. They are intelligent but not always rational, eager but not necessarily tireless—in short, wherever the magnificent threesome might have fallen into cliché, Rowling steers them deftly clear of danger...
...wisdom, but now, according to the Christian priest who has been looking after them, there are only eight Jews left in the Iraqi capital, and their situation is "more than desperate." The Rev. Canon Andrew White, the Anglican chaplain to Iraq, says that the small group is in considerable danger. However, the community has been unable to agree to emigrate as a whole. Some of its members, without identifying themselves as Jews, have attempted to leave individually, but have been turned down. White says that only one of the Jews, a woman, still regularly goes to a Baghdad synagogue, though...