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This past Sunday was the annual New York City Marathon. As helicopters flew overhead and police barricaded street corners, painful reminders of a city under siege, runners clad in starred and striped shorts and T-shirts turned 26 miles of raw endurance into a communal exercise of grief. Firefighters ran for lost brothers, husbands for lost wives, friends for lost friends. The marathon’s motto, “United We Run,” captured the spirit of the event. Never, perhaps, has the image of 30,000—Canadians, Ethiopians, and New Yorkers among them?...
...urging. Congress is considering greatly expanding the number of inspectors employed by the nation's two food-safety agencies, the Department of Agriculture, which inspects beef and poultry, including imports, and the Food and Drug Administration, which overlooks most other processed foods. Consumers can protect themselves by washing raw fruits and vegetables in soap and water or a dilute chlorine bleach solution...
...Western states. "The best preparation is to let terrorists know, ?We know what you're up to. We're ready,'" Davis said Thursday. But what exactly did he know? In this case, the threat to attack bridges at rush hour between last Friday and this Wednesday, based on a raw, overseas tip to the U.S. Customs Service, wasn't considered credible by the FBI-despite Davis' characterizations to the contrary. Like countless other reports that go out every day over the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (nlets)-the authorities' national Intranet tip sheet-this one was never supposed...
...with its acoustic accompaniment and self-motivating lyrics, Incubus have largely been compared to angrier, more aggressive bands like the Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But it seems that the prospect of commercial success has gone to Incubus’ collective heads, and on View, the raw energy of their early work is reworked and toned down into something more accessible...
...scrutiny than others. For instance, in the top three most recruited sports of football, men’s hockey and men’s basketball, there are “special institutional controls” designed to ensure that no Ivy school cheats the system for the sake of raw athletic talent...