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...some critics, however, the Navy's supercarriers are the Maginot Line of the late 20th century, monuments to military obsolescence. Would-be military reformers question whether enormously expensive supercarriers provide enough bang for the buck. If the U.S. tried to re-enact the Battle of Midway against the Soviet navy's modern cruise missiles and submarines, they warn, the American fleet would wind up like the Spanish Armada--on the ocean floor...
...contestants slated to compete in Jeopardy’s College Championships—is in a unique position to do so. Some might expect her to hit Trebek with questions such as “Who is Antigone?” or “What is the Maginot Line?” (as she should, given that money and a Volvo are at stake), but I wish she’d ask him some of life’s more important questions: why Britney sells more records than X-Tina, or why the Olsens have taken over the world...
...right--there will be many, many Los Alamos--type projects spearheaded by various teams of scientists and engineers seeking to head off a mind-numbing array of potential threats. This much you can count on: some will be elaborate but ineffectual (can you say Maginot Line?), some will be all hype, but some will improve our sense of safety. Because terrorists can pick targets anywhere, counterterrorism has to defend everywhere--from airports to office buildings to cargo ships to hospitals. Sept. 11 shed an urgent light on our vulnerabilities and galvanized us to protect ourselves with something better than duct...
Will these innovations make us safer? Don't forget that Maginot Line. And with terrorists, it's a never-ending contest. We close the old gaps; they probe for new ones. They thrust; we parry. In some ways, we've only just entered the fight. If nothing else, we'll soon be better armed. --Reported by Laura Locke/San Francisco, Eric Roston/Washington and Jyoti Thottam/New York
...Edward Kennedy have quietly reopened negotiations on the question of whether and how patients should be allowed to sue their managed-care companies. But while the HMO-reform measure was a crowd pleaser when the idea started kicking around five years ago, it is merely a "version of the Maginot Line" against the health-care problems facing the country, says Steven Schroeder, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which leads a coalition of business, labor and health-care groups trying to call attention to the uninsured--40 million and growing. The recession is likely to be over before Congress...