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...News Channel’s omnipresent indication of our nation’s “terror alert” status. Patriotic citizens around the country now raise both the American flag and the orange “high alert” flag of the Department of Homeland Security. Pundits and anchormen comb through our country’s weak spots and ask the questions that need to be answered, like whether our seaports are safe from oil tankers—which could clearly be used as torpedo missiles—and whether Air France should ever be allowed...
...Secretary Ridge says just do what you normally do ... If normally you go to Times Square, I wouldn't do what you normally do." CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Republican Congressman from Connecticut, warning New Year's Eve revelers against following the Secretary of Homeland Security's advice not to change any plans because of the terrorism threat...
...failings, however, a jittery homeland defense may be better than a sleepy one. Despite strained relations between Washington and Paris over the war in Iraq, it was a French official who made the best case in defense of the Americans last week. "It's interesting how people still love to talk about missed signals before Sept. 11 and second-guess U.S. authorities' failures to see it coming. Yet the same people are now asking mocking questions about how unnecessary these ongoing measures may be," says the official. "That's the problem in the post--Sept. 11 world. The only certainty...
...monitor the world. "It's going to be a hugely revolutionary technology," he says. Already, he has performed an experiment for the U.S. Army in which a mere eight motes were dropped from a plane and used to detect a fleet of vehicles on the ground. Homeland Security will start using smart dust this summer in a pilot project to protect ports in Florida. And Honeywell has started using motes in supermarkets to make giant refrigerators more energy efficient. Says Pister: "There's a potential to do for the physical world what the Net did for the world of ideas...
...brought a Tibetan flag with me—a symbol that is banned in China, just to remind Wen that it exists, that it represents the history and hopes of 6 million people inside Tibet and over 130,000 outside who have had to flee their homeland. Wen said in his talk that he really likes young people. I believe him—he seemed a thoughtful man who genuinely cares about his country and its people. But I would ask him to go to Tibet and talk to the Tibetan youth there. Ask them their thoughts on being denied...