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...public feel involved--no tinfoil collections, no sacrifice of silk stockings to make parachutes, no national meatless days. After Sept. 11, the President told people to go shopping. This time officials actually provided a list. "We have to give people something to do," Ridge told lawmakers, which is how duct tape officially became a staple, like flashlights and Band-Aids. This week Ridge will roll out the Ready Campaign, which offers advice about terrorist threats and the promise that "with a little planning and common sense, you can be better prepared for the unexpected." But in private there were arguments...
...stupid if I didn't follow the government guidelines. I got the last roll of 6-mm plastic at Lowe's." A mom in Maryland bought shower curtains instead of plastic sheeting, figuring she could use them once the world returns to normal. The country's largest duct-tape manufacturer was running its factories round the clock as sales tripled in a week. Fortunately, there's a website to teach you how to make a wallet out of any leftover tape. "I don't want to spend six weeks holed up in my bedroom with a roll of duct tape...
...make sense to worry about ourselves. Anything can happen, to be sure, but it's hard to imagine a strike on little Livingston (pop. 6,800). As for formulating evacuation plans, we headed for the hills the day we moved here, and we've already assembled our survival kits. Duct tape? There's a roll in every pickup. Drinking water? Dip a bucket in the creek. Extra food? It's grazing all around us. While others make do with canned carrots, we'll have sirloin...
...have we? While the Administration demonstrated again last week its determination to remind Americans of the dangers of terrorism, it has done far less to prepare the country for actually defending against it. While the White House's suggestion that Americans defend themselves against chemical or biological attacks with duct tape and plastic sheeting was dismissed by many for its naivete, it laid bare a sobering truth: the U.S. still doesn't have a credible and comprehensive system in place to cope with such attacks. "We're not building the means to respond well," says Stephen Flynn, a homeland-security...
...Department of Homeland Security, almost none of it has actually been spent. Democrats are accusing the White House of neglecting homeland security while it slashes taxes and takes up fights with enemies abroad. "How is it," says Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, "that we're asking widows to put duct tape on their house, when police, firemen and medical personnel don't have adequate resources...