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...highlight of the piece, with her incredible emotional expression and uninhibited motion. The corps dancers were also impressive, managing a high level of unity of motion, which was surprising given that they were not dancing to music for much of the number. The piece concluded with a high-energy sequence of pair dancing and an impressively coordinated series of floor movements...
...business cards," one emergency preparedness expert once told me. And this particular simulation is unique in that, unlike the hundreds of drills that happen all year round, it involves senior officials (hence the name, TOPOFF, which is short for "Top Officials.") Elected politicians from the city, state and federal level will have to talk to one another and make hard decisions with limited information...
...Terrorism is by definition psychological warfare. So it is essential to trust the public and the media to be part of the solution. On some level, homeland security officials know this...
...That brings to mind the last component that would render a counterterrorism drill most effective. It would end with a clear-eyed and extensive public report. As it is, the TOPOFF reports are "for official use only," so they are not shared publicly - a level of secrecy that was criticized by some members of Congress last week. "What that does is it shields people from accountability," says Clarke. A good public report would not include truly secret information. It would identify problems and set deadlines for fixing them. And if it were public, there might actually be some pressure...
...rising water is also causing rampant soil erosion, resulting in riverbank collapses and landslides along the shores of the Yangtze's tributaries. Professor Lei Hengshun, an environmentalist at Chongqing University who has devoted years to studying and preserving the Three Gorges ecosystem, says that if the water level of the reservoir reaches its planned height of 165 meters next year, it will bring tributaries of the Yangtze River under even greater environmental threat. "Now it's a good time to review the problems that have arisen," he says, "before a larger flooded area brings an even bigger impact...