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...turn the city itself into a secure environment. Anyone entering the seven-block pedestrian zone known as Olympic Square will be searched. Sensors will monitor the local food, air and water supplies for chemical and biological toxins. And the FAA has created a no-fly zone called the "Olympic Ring" for commercial and private planes that encompasses a 45-mile radius from Salt Lake International Airport. Even so, insists Salt Lake Olympic Committee president Mitt Romney, "once you're inside the secure perimeter, it will feel and look just like prior Games...
...While The Crimson has changed in many ways in the last five years—moving from a subscription-based service to free distribution to students, creating an award-winning online presence, and working diligently to diversify its staff—many of Schaffer’s words still ring true today. So as we at The Crimson begin our 129th year of publication today, we offer you Schaffer’s column explaining The Crimson’s place in the University community and the importance of reading The Crimson on a regular basis. The column has been slightly...
...thought to be a prime hideaway for undetected al-Qaeda cells scattered throughout Southeast Asia. For several months Manila provided houseroom for Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Only last week Philippine police arrested three men suspected of plotting with an al-Qaeda ring recently broken up in Singapore. Sleepers like these, with a taste for anti-American action, trained and financed by al-Qaeda, could be part of a regional terrorism fraternity operating under the banner of Jemaah Islamia, which seeks to knit renegade segments of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia into...
...ALLOWED Dreadlocks, colored contacts and, on men, nail polish or visible body piercings (because it can be hard to tell a minor shrapnel wound apart from a badly conceived nipple ring). Nail polish is O.K . for women, so long as it's not blue, black, khaki or?things really are changing?camouflage...
...highly tuned system. The acquired immune response, for example, actually comes in two parts. The first involves antibodies, the molecules produced to match, like a key fitting into a lock, the multiple proteins that coat the surfaces of viruses and bacteria. The more keys on the immune cell's ring, the more likely that the cell can lock onto and destroy a pathogen...