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WHAT CAN BE DONE The government has ordered stepped-up smallpox-vaccine production, so that 300 million fresh doses should be ready in 12 months. There is no vaccine for plague--though the recent decoding of its genome could accelerate that quest...
...Applicants were asked to submit proposals by Dec. 23 for gadgets--to be fully developed within 12 to 18 months--resembling everything from X-ray glasses to crystal balls to Star Trek Tricorder-style body scanners. Here's a guide to what the Pentagon is looking for in its quest to stamp out terrorism...
...some of its splendid isolation. But while satellite TV may be superseding story-telling, and Internet chat rooms replacing the hubbub of the marketplace, this Himalayan kingdom perched between Tibet and India still has no traffic lights, no Starbucks and only 7,000 tourists a year. Those on a quest for the unspoiled will find it hard to fault King Jigme Singye Wangchuck's jealous guarding of the Land of the Thunder Dragon...
...Langley headquarters, has ballooned to 800 analysts, technicians and covert operatives. Nearby conference rooms and snack bars have been commandeered for makeshift workstations. Empty pizza boxes, the residue of 24-hour-a-day activity, litter hallways. A financial team is feeding bank transfer intelligence to Operation Green Quest, a Treasury Department program to block al Qaeda?s cash flow. Agency scientists are also fielding anti-terror gizmos like OASIS, a computer that scans thousands of foreign TV broadcasts and quickly plucks out terror suspects on the screen from their voiceprints...
...seem much better. She works as a waitress in a quintessentially Parisian café, where the regulars comprise a dysfunctional family of their own. But one day she discovers a box of toys in her apartment and resolves to find its owner. This sets her on a quest to improve the lives of her neighbors, which ranges from humbling the arrogant to playing matchmaker for the romantically frustrated. In the course of this work, she runs across Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz), an adult bookstore employee and carnival worker who spends his free time collecting and arranging discarded pictures from instant...