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Driven to Destruction Be careful crossing the road in 2020: car crashes look set to become the world?s third most common cause of death in the 21st century.
The message greeting United Nations inspectors on their return to Iraq last week was ungrammatical but clear. Slathered in yellow paint on a wall at the Habaniya air base were the words DOWN AMERICA. The 75 inspectors--four of them Americans--may have come back, but they were still not...
"Imagine that weapons of mass destruction come to be relatively accessible to... terrorists and criminal groups," he said. "Replay Desert Storm."
If such attacks do come, they will find the U.S. largely unprepared. In 1996 Congress passed the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, which called for government action to block assaults on U.S. territory and help for local governments to prepare to deal with them. The Pentagon is beginning...
A year older and still bemused by his good fortune, Ambrose is following up his 1996 breakthrough with three volumes, two new and one newish. The latter, the hefty American Heritage New History of World War II (Viking; 628 pages; $50), was first published in 1966 with text by the...