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...order men like John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge pinned little silver sheriff's stars to every American chest and told us to be vigilant, form neighborhood watch groups and report anything suspicious. The 911 lines promptly jammed, local cops chased flocks of wild geese, and no one felt much safer...
...Federal Center for Meat Research in Kulmbach found Nitrofen in organic chicken as early as Jan. 28, but the discovery wasn't reported to the federal Agriculture Ministry until May 23."This new scandal marks the final failure of Ms. Künast's plan to make food production safer with a one-sided policy of fostering organic farming," declared the opposition Christian Democrat Union. Replied Künast, a former Green Party chairwoman in the ruling coalition: "We must find out who knew what and when and failed to pass on the information." Organic farming has surged...
...whole point of the new arms-reduction pact between the U.S. and Russia is to make the world a safer place. But some experts argue that the agreement will do just the opposite. After all, stripping thousands of Russian nuclear weapons from well-guarded missiles, bombers and submarines and squirreling them away in less secure storage sites will make them tempting targets for ambitious terrorists...
Dismantling the weapons isn't necessarily safer, argues Bruce Blair, president of the Center for Defense Information and an expert on Moscow's nuclear policy. He says the Russian military, which presumably will continue watching over stored warheads, provides better security than the civilian agency that oversees warhead disassembly. Of course, better doesn't mean good. In a little-noticed report sent to Congress in February, the National Intelligence Council, an umbrella panel representing U.S. spy agencies, detailed the threat posed by stored Russian nuclear weapons. Poverty is rampant among Russian nuclear-weapons guards, it noted. Many are homeless...
...Afghanistan. The Taliban fell but Osama was never found and while regime change is nice, it’s tough to say exactly what Operation Enduring Freedom accomplished. While the world might be a little less safe for terrorists, it doesn’t appear to be much safer...