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...choice--easy to hide, easy to throw, legal to possess and dense enough to cause damage. Rioters defiantly threw them, along with less refined bricks, rocks and Molotov cocktails, at the Summit of the Americas conference in Quebec City last April. With as many as 100,000 expected to gather for the World Bank-IMF meeting, all local and federal law-enforcement agencies are on guard. "We certainly don't want to inhibit those who come to demonstrate peaceably," says Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin. "But we have to be prepared for those who break...
...Independence Day is coming, the 39th anniversary of Jamaica's emergence from the control of Britain. Outside club Asylum, one of the city's most popular night spots, young Jamaicans--in their teens, 20s and 30s--have begun to gather. Inside, things are slow as the drone of foreign acts--Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, 'N Sync--echoes across the empty dance floor. But out on the streets, kids are making their own scene, to their own sounds. It is a scene like those that nowadays are taking place in cities all over the planet--in Tokyo, in Cape Town...
...games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's-eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them out or shut them down, or force us to do it ourselves...
...long, protracted geopolitical struggle into which the U.S. was rudely inducted Tuesday morning. Government spending - defense, airport security, "homeland defense," even a new sort of Marshall Plan for the Muslim world; public relations is as worthy a war as any. A serious reorganization of the way we gather intelligence and guard our vulnerable points would help build the impression that the U.S., at least, is moving toward the same domestic-security vigilance as that "rest of the world" where foreign investors live. And a show of leadership and serious-minded strategy by this administration might even give the impression that...
...games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's-eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them out or shut them down, or force us to do it ourselves...