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...officials to recall the situation a year ago, when intelligence analysts picked up "chatter" about possible terror attacks abroad but missed signs that the hijackers were already on American soil. "Everybody thought last year it would be outside," says a senior FBI official. "History has proven that we were incorrect." This time the President acted: Bush ordered the closure of all U.S. embassies in Southeast Asia and of some other diplomatic facilities around the world. For the first time, the homeland-threat level was raised to Code Orange, one level below an imminent attack. Last Saturday U.S. officials arrested...
According to Kinchla, the temporary windfall may have been caused by students who provided incorrect jack numbers when they spoke to service vendors...
...other country. And in 1995, Japan set up the Asian Women's Fund, a semi-private charity to collect money for women forced into sexual slavery by the military. Still, even the fund's director, Mizuho Matsuda, remains unimpressed. "Japan has not done enough," she complains, "although it's incorrect to say Japan has done nothing...
...running brain scans to determine which lobes and regions are involved in bipolar disorder and how to target them more accurately with drugs. Investigators also hope to develop a blood test that will allow bipolar disorder to be spotted as simply as, say, high cholesterol, eliminating years of incorrect diagnoses and misguided treatments...
...have to face in their comfortable lives at home. They want to believe that their vacationing does not have the same impact as that of the mass tourists from whom they like to distinguish themselves." This is self-denial as self-indulgence and, to Duffy, quite politically incorrect. From the former British colony of Belize - now a popular ecotourist destination in Central America - Duffy relates stories of scuba-diving and snorkeling visitors who have grabbed onto, or stepped on, fragile corals and otherwise harassed marine wildlife. Despite being urged to "leave only bubbles" in their wake, they have fomented occasional...