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...powerful x-ray machines that will slice and dice baggage onscreen, the armed sky marshals ready to drop any prospective terrorist in their tracks. Nor will it be the pilots armed with hollow point bullets ready to defend the sanctum of the cockpit, or any other high-tech or high-force solution. Rather, the most intimidating obstacle in a hijacker’s mind will be the tens or hundreds of passengers who will believe the worst of their imaginations. The hijackers on the 11th played on our expectations of the credible outcomes of a hijacking: very high-stress, high...
...time to test their wings, as well as evidence of real changes in airport security. To that end, Bush announced a series of new federal initiatives. He vowed to make "our airline security stronger and more reliable." Here's a look at the President's plan--and some other high-tech security measures currently available...
...What is clear, however, is that the terrorists struck at the worst possible time for Asia. In the months before the attacks, the region's economies were already in dire shape, largely because the U.S. market for the things Asia makes?computers, cars, high-tech gadgets?had all but dried up. Exports account for more than 60% of Malaysia and Singapore's GDP, while the number is around 50% for Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea and the Philippines. About half of those shipments go to the U.S., and analysts say that the attacks could cause American demand to nosedive a further...
...terms of low long-term interest rates, miniscule unemployment, and booming economic growth that filled government coffers higher than they?d ever been. Then he led the international effort to keep the Asian crisis contained and the U.S. confident and afloat, and left in the middle of the high-tech boom...
...deal with any terrorist threat--depressurizing the aircraft or making drastic maneuvers to keep hijackers off balance; protecting the cockpit at all costs, regardless of what is happening in the rest of the plane; installing a dead bolt on the otherwise flimsy cabin door and eventually developing an impenetrable, high-tech portal that can still open in the event of an accident; and using an emergency crash ax if necessary as a "potential defensive weapon...