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Probably not. Few people could disagree last week with the Bush Administration's decision to alert workers in New York City that their buildings had been cased. But there's less of a consensus, including in more terrorism-prone places like Israel and France, about whether U.S. officials should be forthcoming about how they came by that intelligence and what exactly they are doing about it. "To publish or not to publish--this is the dilemma of the intelligence officer every day, every minute," says Colonel Yossi Daskal, a retired head of the terrorism section of Israeli military intelligence...
...survey of 166,574 Americans, researchers found that in the late 1990s, adults in the U.S. felt "sad, blue or depressed" an average of three days a month. Women and young adults were more prone to funks than men or seniors. Down days were associated with bad habits (smoking, physical inactivity) and tough circumstances (poverty, unemployment). Underweight subjects, however, had almost twice as many blue days as those who were overweight...
...crater. Her late father's find was extraordinarily rare. Although an estimated 3,000 metric tons of meteoric dust falls to Earth each year, only about 100 meteorites of any substance make it through the atmosphere. Typically, only five of these will be made of iron and therefore "less prone to break up," says Alex Bevan, Curator of Mineralogy and Meteoritics at the Western Australian Museum. More than half shoot harmlessly into the sea; individuals large enough to gouge a Wolfe Creek arrive - fortunately for us - about once every 50,000 years. The Earth's surface has "fewer than...
...Easy to make and hugely profitable (a "point," or 0.1 g, sells for about $35 in Australia but costs only about 70? to make), ice is as toxic to societies as it is to users. Addicts are prone to reckless criminality and extreme violence as well as paranoia and convulsions. Just as worrying, says Shaun Evans, law-enforcement adviser to the Pacific Islands Forum, ice has brought other crime in its wake: "In the past, organized criminals stuck to one commodity, like heroin or LSD. Now we have polycriminals. Anything that will make money, they will do it." Evans...
Easy to make and hugely profitable (a "point," or 0.1 gram, sells for about $A50 in Australia but costs only about $A1 to make), ice is as toxic to societies as it is to users. Addicts are prone to reckless criminality and extreme violence as well as paranoia and convulsions. Countries like Australia and New Zealand (where high-purity crystal meth is fast displacing less potent forms of the drug) are robust enough to absorb some of the damage. Island societies are not. Ice abuse has caused social and economic mayhem in Guam, Palau and Hawaii, says Shaun Evans...