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...never a threat. He didn't plant a bomb, and box cutters on a plane aren't a big deal anymore for one simple reason: other passengers. "A terrorist who jumps up with box cutters will probably be beaten to death," says Brian Jenkins, a security expert with the Rand Corp. That said, some security professionals say they're indebted to Heatwole. "That kid is my hero," says Charles Slepian, head of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center. "He got us to pay attention to what many of us have known since 9/11--that security at airports is all smoke and mirrors...
...thank-you notes he flecked off in every direction. But few people knew that Reagan ranks among the most prolific Presidents, author of more than 5,000 letters on everything from his love of Snoopy to his guilt about sex, his hatred of gossip and his taste for Ayn Rand. And so the private account of a public life, to be published in Reagan: A Life in Letters, is a code breaker for anyone still curious about which version most resembles the Real Reagan...
...Uganda, there is “openness and not stigma” about AIDS, said Rand Stoneburner, a Cambridge professor and an authority on AIDS. And people have been willing to talk openly about who has AIDS and how not to get it, he said...
...DIED. RAND BROOKS, 84, actor best known, to his dismay, for playing Charles Hamilton, the nerdy first husband of Scarlett O'Hara who goes off to war only to die of illness in Gone With the Wind; in Santa Ynez, Calif. Brooks, who also appeared in numerous westerns and played sidekick Lucky Jenkins in the Hopalong Cassidy movies, called his role in Wind "asinine," saying, "I wanted to be more macho...
Daniel Benjamin is senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Steven Simon is senior analyst at the Rand Corp. They are the authors of The Age of Sacred Terror (Random House...