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...does the U.S. government think it's kidding by declaring an orange-level, high-risk alert [NATION, Feb. 24]? Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's urging Americans to get survival kits, plastic sheeting and duct tape was yet another sad attempt by the Bush Administration to get the American people to support an unjust war by heightening our anxiety. TED KEPES Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...Homeland Insecurity The U.S. economy has bunkered down, with retail sales falling 1.6% last month and payrolls plunging 308,000 - the most since the Sept. 11 attacks...
...marriage of special interest handouts and national security legislation is back on. Last year, a measure that would have protected Eli Lilly & Co. from lawsuits involving a mercury-based preservative in many childhood vaccines was quietly attached to legislation establishing the Department of Homeland Security-but a furious outcry led to its repeal two months later. Now it's been coupled to a bill that would-finally-set up a compensation program for health care workers who suffer serious side effects from smallpox vaccines. The absence of such a program is a big reason why fewer than...
...movie which resembles Rebel Without A Cause.While some of these films seem similar to Hollywood products of the Cold War era, many manifest a uniquely German struggle to create a new post-war national identity. Heimatfilms, which celebrate the German landscape as a lush geographical, cultural and even spiritual homeland, existed before, during and after the Nazi...
...says Rentschler, Heimatfilms of the 1930s “became a vehicle for privileging native soil, seeing native space as having to be protected from outsiders”—but by the 1950s, “the homeland was no longer about the same militant national identity, but about a psychological need to deal with upheaval” and create a new identity...