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There are dozens of ways state officials could substantively improve security--if only they had money. The Virginia Preparedness and Security Panel has concluded that the state needs up to $840 million in safety modifications, but budget experts predict a $3.2 billion shortfall. So Virginia is looking from the expense of terror prevention to the expedience of punishment. A bill proposed by new attorney general Jerry Kilgore would impose the death penalty for "terrorist masterminds." At least seven other states have similar bills in the works. Never mind that terrorism is already a capital offense under federal...
...While we cannot predict the future, we can prevent and prepare,maximizing every resource available to us,” Swift said in her state address...
...irrational-exuberance moment Greenspan reminded his audience that economic forecasting - and its kissin' cousin, investing - has been made even more difficult by the "major uncertainty that we all must deal with these days: The specter of further terrorist incidents on American soil. It simply is not possible to predict whether there will be any such incidents or to forecast their possible consequences for the economy...
...Then there's the bag check issue. According to the ATSA every bag will be subject to some type of security check by January 18th, 2002. That's an optimistic assessment. Experts predict that while more bags certainly will be screened in the New Year, it's not clear exactly when we can expect all bags to be funneled through high-resolution x-ray machines before being loaded into a cargo hold...
...controlled experiment testing those fancy French theories about disease as a social construct. I was officially, publicly healthy. Now, with almost no objective medical change, I am officially, publicly sick. How will that change the actual effect of the disease? Without, I hope, distorting the experiment, I predict that this notion of disease as a function of attitudes about disease will turn out to be more valid than I would have suspected eight years...