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...THREAT Thriller writers often confect plots that turn on the poisoning of a city's water supply with a few tablets of some very lethal substance. But while the idea has a long history (Roman legionnaires tossed animal corpses into the water supplies of their enemies), the tactic isn't very practical. Even in high concentrations, germs would probably be quickly diluted in a large reservoir, if not killed off later during chlorination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next? | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...TOXINS ENTER CELL The entire complex, encased in a bubble, drops into the cell and starts ejecting its lethal cargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Anthrax Is Weaponized... | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...rooms, there is a growing belief that the strategy for winning this war requires at least as much ruthlessness as the carpet-bombing B-52s displayed last week, and probably much more. A senior U.S. official in Pakistan says American ground forces will ultimately need to mount lethal raids in the heart of Taliban country, to prove to the regime that the U.S. is willing and able to cut them down. Facing off against the Taliban on its turf won't be easy, and the human toll could be horrific. But that's the point in a merciless war. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: The War Escalates | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

...seen the thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description of the intense excitement that comes with one’s first time squeezing rounds from a lethal weapon. But when trigger-time comes, you never get to hear about the gun mystique, because the author actually passes out and ends the chapter without firing a single round...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New American Way: Only Food And Guns | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...seen the thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description of the intense excitement that comes with one’s first time squeezing rounds from a lethal weapon. But when trigger-time comes, you never get to hear about the gun mystique, because the author actually passes out and ends the chapter without firing a single round...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New American Way: Only Food And Guns | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

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