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...August nights, stars fall out of the sky in meteor showers while young people are gunned down at random on the playground, on the stoop or on U.S. 26 in Portland, Ore., where a 29-year-old man was shot on Aug. 11 after merging into another driver's lane. Tempers blister; discipline runs thin. We've had summers of riots, of stalkers and serial killers, of orange alerts and Amber alerts, West Nile and wildfires. This August brings familiar fears and fresh ones, the storms now pacing offshore with disarming names like Flossie and Erin; we know...
...that end, the audience comes to know the villain Hussein Al Mansour, a middle manager at the terror cell who is determined to become terrorist kingpin; Bilal, a flamboyant jihadi who declares his homosexuality in his martyr video; Liberty and Justice, airport security guards who conduct random security checks on passengers named Ali, Rashid and Abdullah; and Foxy Redstate, an ambitious broadcast journalist who uncovers the bomb plot, but keeps it quiet with the hope of landing an exclusive that will launch her to media stardom...
...classic American tracks while sipping on our cheap drinks. Firemen mingled—sometimes too cozily—with the crowd and put on a strip tease for our entertainment (no, sadly, they did not do the Full Monty). I even struck up conversation with a Frenchman about a random little island we had both visited as children...
...Every so often, they believe, the pattern-separation circuit misfires, and a new experience that's merely similar to an older one seems identical. "It doesn't happen very often to most people," Tonegawa says. Intriguingly, some people with epilepsy have this experience all the time. "Epileptic seizures involve random firing of neurons in the temporal lobes, which include the hippocampus," he says, and that could scramble the circuit...
...thinking about Katrina, most Americans consider the disaster to have been a random event, a force of nature that couldn't be controlled or predicted. I know I did. But two years after Katrina drowned New Orleans, I'm persuaded that what happened in the Big Easy was less an act of nature than a man-made disaster. Katrina was not the Big One that the city had long feared; it was a Category 3 storm that mostly missed the city. But through a mixture of shoddy engineering, poor planning and selfish politics, a survivable hurricane was turned into...