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That said, it isn't likely to happen. Bruce Hoffman, a Rand Corp. terrorism analyst, says that setting off a systemwide collapse with a physical attack that cuts through all the backup systems and redundancies would be technically difficult. The terrorists would need an uncommonly detailed knowledge of U.S. facilities and sophisticated engineering expertise. "Utilities are vulnerable," says Gary Seifert of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, "but not to systemwide outages, without a lot of skill...
Treatment techniques have also improved. The same issue of J.A.M.A. reported on a school-based program developed by scientists at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., and tested on 126 sixth-graders in two economically disadvantaged schools in East Los Angeles. After 10 sessions, students in the program, most of whom had experienced or witnessed violence involving guns or knives, had significantly fewer symptoms of PTSD than children who got no treatment...
Young Daniel Ellsberg (James Spader) is one of the Rand Corp.'s best and brightest, writing papers for the think tank that advocate brinkmanship and "the political uses of madness" in the cold war. In 1964 his work takes him to the Pentagon, where he sees madness in action. He learns that the entire war policy, in effect, is a mess swept under a carpet of inflated enemy body counts. Asked to help write a history of the war effort, he finds that the U.S. has remained hopelessly entangled because no President wanted to be the first U.S. leader...
More broadly, ephedra science is a fledgling, uncertain field: doctors can't say definitively that the plant is dangerous, especially when taken appropriately (Bechler took three pills, not the recommended two). Last summer the Bush Administration commissioned a major Rand study of ephedra, which should provide more answers when it is published this spring...
...real reason to believe they could be hit next? The Administration's duct-tape alert had the perhaps counterproductive effect of suggesting that every household should consider itself a target--even while prime targets went undefended. "These threats are real," says Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp., "but the increased probability of a terrorist attack does not increase the risks to any single individual." At the same time, even strengthening our defenses won't deter terrorists forever. The truth is, we probably have no way of knowing whether the country is prepared for the next attack until...