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Across Europe, uniformed security guards have appeared at the doors of once wide-open office blocks. Companies shopping for their first metal detectors have found themselves at the end of long waiting lists. And high-tech gizmos that three months ago might have appealed only to the truly paranoid now look like sensible precautions. Here are a few of the technologies poised to benefit from the new bull market in fear...
...eight songs barely scratching the surface of the monster two-disc concert format so beloved of Dave Mathews and Pearl Jam. Wrong also carefully avoids all the obvious song choices from Radiohead’s drop-dead back catalogue: There are no souped-up takes on “Paranoid Android” or stadium-sized singalongs of “Karma Police.” Instead, the album showcases new songs from the last two albums, and in many cases infuses them with a new vitality, though sometimes at the expense of the brooding dark atmospherics of the album...
...fair, when it comes to the Middle Eastern quagmire, absolute objectivity may be too much to ask. But some semblance of balance in a professor’s presentation is not. Bland-centrists do not offset the rants of anti-Israel activists so zealous (and paranoid?) they fear the interference...
...Despite their paranoid aversion to TV images, the Taliban are learning fast. Last week they admitted several journalists to witness bomb damage in and around Kandahar. More will follow. The world?s only military superpower has failed to embrace the new tyranny of real-time information transparency in war. Low-cost video cameras and mobile phones can nimbly upstage billion-dollar information-processing systems and hierarchical command-and-control structures...
...course Laxer is right to observe that executions are savage, that some militia members are paranoid menaces and that many burger-munchers are metamorphosing into disgusting human gastropods. But pointing out these follies is a bit like hunting cows with an assault rifle. No one, including most educated Americans, thinks serious gun-nuts are more than a negligible fringe and in 2001, it’s an awful waste of breath to treat them as if the sanity of their position were an open question. Isn’t this just stating the obvious? Yanks tend to be very...