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...they might stay anywhere within a 50-mile radius. So people are spread out all over the place, in little clumps of crowds. And ironically, the issue of crowd control has never really been paramount at U.S. games because, as I mentioned before, we do tend to gear our events towards freedom of movement...
...Dallas, right under Jerry Jones' nose. The Rams season-ticket holders will do their best peacock impressions, showing their colors for all the locals to see. Don't be surprised if those famous Bourbon Street 3-for-1 specials turn into 6-for-1's for anyone donning Patriots gear...
...still night in Kabul, two weeks ago, Marine guards in full combat gear at the U.S. embassy were startled by the whoosh of a fireball exploding underneath wintry trees at the far end of the diplomatic compound. The resident bomb-disposal expert decided to wait until dawn before venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit...
...rising, the long-term financial outlook seems more uncertain and banks keep interest rates high, no matter how much Alan Greenspan cuts the prime rate. During the 1991-92 recession, the Federal Reserve cut the prime rate and bank rates barely budged. That kept the economy in low gear. Now the economy is in a recession again, and in one year the federal government has gone from endless surpluses to a return to deficits. There may be a war to pay for, but the feds could learn something from the states. And the president could learn something from his little...
...After Sept. 11, police say, all those plans were put into high gear. Two foreigners?one an Arab al-Qaeda member and the other an alleged bomb expert from the Philippine Moro Islamic Liberation Front?arrived in Singapore in September or October to direct the preparations. The two men, known as Sammy and Mike, told their local contacts they needed 21 tons of ammonium nitrate and warehouse space for the construction of several truck bombs. One of the arrested Singaporeans allegedly attempted to buy 17 tons of ammonium nitrate. (The group supposedly already had four tons stored away across...