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...days after Sept. 11, doomsday scenarios like a nuclear attack on Manhattan suddenly seemed plausible. But during the six months that followed, as the U.S. struck back and the anthrax scare petered out and the fires at Ground Zero finally died down, the national nightmare about another calamitous terrorist strike went away...
...dissuasive weaponry, Martin and his six colleagues of the Alpha Squad are a no-nonsense message to the cocaine dealers, a comfort to the locals and, in the end, probably whistling in the wind. "They aim for visibility," says Christian Séchaud, of the Lausanne police, and to scare dealers off the streets, albeit temporarily. Arrest, he says, is not an option because the cocaine dealers - the vast majority of them in this part of town are West African asylum seekers - are "untouchable." For a start, drug use is not illegal in Switzerland, and possession of .2 grams...
...Wendy M. Seltzer ’96 the “scare tactics” being used by corporations on the Internet are the cyber-equivalent of book burnings from the Middle Ages—both limit free speech...
...Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a team of legal scholars at the Internet clinics of Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley and University of San Francisco, have started a website to counteract what they call the “chilling effects” of such scare tactics on free speech in cyberspace...
RESIGNING. JEFFREY KOPLAN, 57, director since 1998 of the Centers for Disease Control; in Atlanta. He and his staff came under fire for not responding quickly enough to last year's anthrax scare...