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...nation's No. 1 state recipient of homeland-security money per capita, Cheyenne has access to a mobile radio system that allows different agencies to talk to one another, thanks to $52,000 in federal money. Federal money has also brought Wyoming four command vehicles; enough protective haz-mat suits for every police officer, sheriff's deputy and coroner in the state; and a robot named Miss Daisy that can help dismantle bombs and dispose of toxic chemicals. All these items will more than likely save lives. Hazmat suits can be used for highway oil spills and police raids...
...while local authorities around the country are more aware of the potential for terrorist strikes, they lack the resources to upgrade defenses against them. Hospitals say they can't train enough employees to effectively spot and treat victims of biological attacks; fire departments can't afford to buy the haz-mat suits needed to guard against deadly germs; sheriffs say they still learn about terrorist threats from CNN. The bottom line is that in many respects, the homeland is no more secure than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. "The biggest thing we've done," says William Harper, head...
...change colors to match the environment, vests and glasses with embedded computers, and electrospun clothing. The last involves a process in which a solution is charged with high-voltage electricity and spun, like cotton candy, onto a form. Military scientists want to use the process to custom-make instant haz-mat suits by spraying sealants onto clothing. But the prospects for nonwoven, seamless civilian clothing are tantalizing...
...Part of the problem, of course, is that Muslim parties make up a small but critical part of her government. Indeed, her own Vice President, Hamzah Haz, is a longtime defender of radical Islamic groups. Late in October he told reporters that he planned to visit Ba'asyir in prison out of a feeling of "Muslim brotherhood." (Hamzah changed his mind at the last minute, sending a staff member in his place.) As for Ba'asyir, police held off from questioning him for two weeks while he was treated for respiratory problems. Still, resting in a police hospital in Jakarta...
...Haz was chosen by parliament to replace Megawati as Vice President after she was elected by the same body to succeed the impeached Abdurrahman Wahid. Haz is the head of Indonesia's main Muslim political group, the United Development Party, the third largest party in parliament; in 1999 he opposed Megawati's first bid for the presidency on the ground that the world's largest Muslim country should not be run by a woman. Megawati's secular Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle controls just one-third of the seats in parliament. High unemployment and chronic government corruption have caused many...