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...exercise was code-named Poised Response. Attorney General Janet Reno had invited 200 policemen...to plan how they'd react to a terrorist attack. They consider[ed] four scenarios: a car-bomb attack, a chemical-weapons strike on a Washington Redskins football game, the planting of an explosive device in a federal building and an assassination attempt on Madeleine Albright, the Secretary of State. But the war game quickly melted down into squabbling and finger pointing...
...needs of their inhabitants. MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Fashion That Makes You Feel Good It used to be an apple a day was the best trick to avoid the doctor, but soon just putting your clothes on in the morning could help. Palmers Lingerie of Austria offers tights that react to body heat and release vitamins A, B and C into the skin. Scientists at Germany's Hohenstein Institute Textile Research Center are working on a range of healing clothes, including a fabric that combats dermatitis. The textile is woven with tiny repositories that contain an anti-dermatitis agent; in response...
...captured agent. Once that's no longer true, his life will turn very, very nasty. Zubaydah has every reason to lie, to throw his captors off the trail, to sow fear and doubt, to poke the U.S. so that his al-Qaeda fellows can observe how we react. Should we play along? Does passing along his uncorraborated warnings do more harm than good...
...said. Bush, he added, put out a secret alert based on the information the administration had, which wasn't much. Added Rice Thursday: "The government did everything that it could - in a period in which the information was very generalized, in which there was nothing specific in which to react - and had this president known of something more specific or known that a plane was going to be used as a missile, he would have acted...
...Edouard faced media and political ire when, on the same day Michelin revealed a quarterly profit increase of 20%, it announced restructuring plans that would eliminate 7,500 European jobs. "Those painful moves anticipated changes that have occurred and reflected our refusal to wait until things get bad to react," Edouard says. "But the reaction indicated we needed to communicate better what this company is about...