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...homeland-security budget is aimed at keeping casualties down; almost all of the $9.5 billion allocated to combat bioterrorism, for instance, goes toward training and equipping local public-health authorities to treat victims and haul out bodies in the event of an attack. The assumption, of course, is that an attack will come. "We need to accept that the possibility of terrorism is a permanent condition for the foreseeable future," Ridge told TIME. "We just have to accept...
...We’re about a 40-hit per game team,” he said. “We had 76 [Friday] night. And over the long haul, when you continually play through the body, it wears their defensemen down...
...Bush administration has pledged $521 million to the ailing rail system, but Warrington says at least $1.2 billion is needed in 2003 - without which, he says, the railroad will be forced to suspend most or all of its long-haul routes, the least profitable but, because they run through a lot of states, most politically sensitive components of its service...
...government will have resigned itself to infusing boatloads of cash into the floundering rail system. Amtrak, critics grouse, has proven itself incapable of surviving without federal aid. Warrington counters that Amtrak is expected to perform like a profitable business but to provide services - like those sparsely-ridden long-haul routes - like a non-profit organization. And, he argues, while everyone complains about the money that's been lavished on Amtrak - $22 billion since the agency's inception - no one mentions that the government spent $27.5 billion in 2001 alone to keep our highways moving...
...which carries the show (and is owned by TIME's parent company AOL Time Warner), Chaplin gets her Sex and the City free. Using a program called Morpheus, she goes online and downloads any episode she wants in as little as 10 minutes. Then she watches her haul on the computer. "I know it's not legal," the college sophomore says, "but it's easier for me to download than it is to get HBO or cable...