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That isn't some wild-eyed fantasy but what some experts fear is a realistic scenario. Many of the terrorists' tactics depicted here are taken from a Department of Energy (DOE) training video for guards at nuclear facilities. The control-room plot is based on the concerns of veterans from the nuclear industry. Physicist Kenneth Bergeron, who spent most of 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories researching nuclear-reactor safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build...
...that the occupied territories should be returned to the Palestinians and "the Jews should be left to suffer." More often, however, Universal's students feel resentment about being stereotyped, both in the media and on the streets. To senior Ali Fadhli, the Fox TV show 24, which had a plot this season about a Muslim terrorist cell, is "obnoxious," he says. "America has moved on to a new enemy. We're treated now like the Russians were during the Cold War." Being teenagers though, perhaps the worst slight of all is being regarded as outsiders. "The students are aware," says...
...passerby walking through Cambridge on a spring day in the late 1970s might have witnessed a most unusual sight: a large home raised on the back of a truck, deposited soundly on a plot of land at 6 Prescott...
...fish-out-of-water premise into animals-out-of-zoo. A lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), a zebra (Chris Rock), a giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) forsake the friendly confines of Central Park Zoo and end up on you-know-which island off Africa. The plot, by co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and co-writers Mark Burton and Billy Frolick, asks whether a carnivore, the lion, can keep from eating his friends...
...really a person; he's a plot device. But that's the way we want--need--these stories to be told, with frissons of black glamour and some risk factors. The emergence of distressingly ordinary W. Mark Felt returns the narrative to the quotidian. Which may not be such a bad thing. Various journalistic Pooh-Bahs are taking the occasion to remind us that journalism at its socially useful best must often rely on anonymous sources to do its job. Without them, it would be nothing but dubious celebrity interviews and reports on sewer-bond hearings. We also need reminding...