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...used properly. It's the very centerpiece of the damning 9/11 Commission Report - the ability of intelligence agents to "connect the dots." Five years ago, the commission identified as a central concern the "pervasive problems of managing and sharing information across a large and unwieldy government" and proposed a raft of remedies, including a National Counterterrorism Center, a new director of national intelligence and a wholesale cultural shift in how spies think about information. (Watch TIME's video "Homeland Security Tradeshow...
...story of Flight 253 exposed a raft of glaring flaws in the global aviation-security network. Almost all are well known to aviation experts. Yet what President Obama eventually called a "systemic failure" caught his Administration flat-footed for the first 72 hours after the attack, as officials initially tried to play down the weaknesses of the web Abdulmutallab slipped through. More than eight years after 9/11 and 21 years after Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in midair over Scotland, the attempted Christmas bombing revealed that the array of protective measures put in place around the world still...
...large part, we have ourselves to blame. If you look at the underlying causes of some of the most troubling developments of the decade, you can see some striking common denominators. The raft of financial problems, our war with radical Islam, the collapse of GM and much of our domestic auto industry and even the devastation brought about by Katrina all came about at least in part or were greatly exacerbated...
...grace of dads getting down on the dance floor. Their aim: to capture the elusive - and largely uninterested - youth vote when the country goes to the polls sometime before June 2010. With 79 of Britain's 645 MPs currently using Twitter alongside almost 200 prospective parliamentary candidates and a raft of Westminster journalists and bloggers, digital politics has become as crowded and combustible as the analogue version. The latest conflagration - a battle between Conservative blogger Donal Blaney and a Twitter imposter tweeting as @blaneysblarney, the name of Blaney's blog (http://donalblaney.blogspot.com/) - looks set not only to make legal...
...getting crowded. Toyota, Volkswagen, GM and Nissan are expected to roll out small cars in India over the next two years. Suzuki India, king of the tiny automobile, is investing $2.28 billion in the country over the next five years to upgrade factories and strengthen distribution for a raft of new models. Even GM on Sept. 24 announced an unusual collaboration with Bangalore's Reva Electric Car, makers of the G-Wiz, to produce small, affordable electric vehicles for India. Mulally said recently that India would play a big role in accelerating Ford's presence in the Asia-Pacific region...