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...cramped and hot inside a light armored vehicle (LAV). Wearing a flak vest and helmet, and a belt hung with weapon, flashlight, knife and gas mask, a Marine has just enough room to slide into his seat. The commander sits behind a thermal eyepiece, surrounded by metal and wires and the photo his girlfriend gave him when he left a few weeks ago. To his left is the gunner, whose job is to feed in rounds, making sure they don't tangle. Below and ahead but out of sight unless he leans back so far he is lying almost flat...
...what Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge advises: Keep a three-day supply of water and canned food on hand, and make sure you have ample duct tape and plastic sheets to cover windows in the case of a biological or chemical weapons attack. You should also have a flashlight, as well as "sanitizing" supplies like bleach, water and soap...
...respond to this heightened state of alert? What can we do? Generally, you should just be vigilant, pay attention to what's going on. If people really feel they need to do something, they should prepare as if for a hurricane, with some water and some canned goods, a flashlight and a radio. This is not a moment to run out and buy a gas mask; if you've been watching the news you know it wouldn't do you a whole lot of good anyway. But they should also just watch the news - this is definitely a situation where...
...warnings from Western embassies about the impending threat. An ever-growing security clampdown now sees most hotels, and some shopping malls, guarded by groups of machine-gun-toting soldiers and officials who frisk pedestrians and subject entering vehicles to detailed examinations that include a sweep of the chassis with flashlight and mirror-equipped poles. Some of the city's most popular expat watering holes?such as the usually packed BATS at the Shangri-La hotel?have simply shut down until further notice...
...from the primes of our lives. Four students nearly died in the “chaos” of Harvard-Yale two years ago because of “alcohol poisoning at the ‘life-threatening’ level,” Lewis warns with a flashlight under his chin. Another of our brilliant peers fell off a truck and “could easily have become a quadriplegic.” Everyone was okay in the end, of course, but just imagine what could have happened...