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Experts warn about mass contamination of the nation's food supply and nuclear attacks on major U.S. cities precisely because these remote threats are the ones for which adequate defenses are not yet in place. The Coast Guard is arming itself against a possible terrorist attempt to destroy a major U.S. coastal city by detonating a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas. The Bush Administration is bracing for another disaster. "We're as vulnerable today as we were on 9/10 or 9/12," says presidential counselor Karen Hughes. "We just know more." Here is what TIME has learned about America...
...killings were shocking enough, but rumors quickly emerged that aggravated the situation--of Hindu women raped on the platform, of girl survivors being carried away. Local leaders of the chauvinistic Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the group planning to rebuild the Ram temple, gave instructions to destroy all Muslims. In Afsana's neighborhood, Naroda, a crowd of 2,000 armed themselves with sticks, stones and bottles of gasoline and went hunting. At least 65 people were killed, their remains left outside their burned homes. After all the Muslims had died or fled, a Hindu mob surrounded the local mosque and started...
...Sharon's handling of the intifada has turned Israeli public opinion sharply against him, with right-wingers demanding more decisive action to destroy Arafat's administration and opponents on the left calling for a return to negotiations. Sharon heads an increasingly precarious unity government, whose collapse would force an election in which the hot favorite to succeed Sharon is Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister who has been stalking Sharon from the right...
Leverett House Master Howard Georgi says that any CUE-style student evaluations of tutors would destroy the “family atmosphere” that he strives to foster in his House...
...Many in Washington had marveled at the relative absence of casualties in the war's first phase, as U.S. forces appeared to destroy the Taliban without putting many of its own boots on the ground. But while American air power had quickly driven the Taliban from the cities and put to flight their al-Qaeda allies, the U.S. had - as the Pentagon has quietly, but insistently maintained all along - left much of the job still to be completed. The key is to round up the remaining al-Qaeda members still at large in Afghanistan, a task that will be difficult...