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...events in Tokyo were a clear warning to the world. Terrorism has taken a step across a threshold that security experts have been anticipating with dread for decades. It has been known that there are groups out there that are willing to kill at random. There is proof that they are able to use chemical weapons, and possibly biological and radioactive ones as well, that can destroy far more people than conventional bombs and bullets. Now that nerve gas has been used on ordinary citizens, it may possibly happen again: the fact that terrorists are copycats and hungry for publicity...
...Marion ("Sandy") Sanford, a respected and putatively neutral Austin lobbyist, says, "This is not the N.R.A,; this is spontaneous combustion"--fueled by the same dread that has stoked the success of death-penalty campaigns and "Three strikes and you're in." The desire for self-preservation in the face of an increase in random violence and understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson...
...Africa by a smuggled monkey, the virus has the capacity to decimate internal organs within hours, and spread to the entire United States within days. Dr. Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) and Dr. Roberta Keough (Rene Russo) are the doctors in charge of containing and finding a cure for this dread disease...
...them. "Oh man, they suck," is theword in the Yard on peer group outreaches,according to John F. Blackmer '98. Even though hecontinues, "whenever 1600 people in the Yard aresaying one word together, it's probably prettyshallow," the message is still clear. First-yearshave a tendency to dread outreaches...
...Give me the damn encyclopedia!'' I shout. Hearing the dread word, my nephews erupt from the rug and flee...