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...ocean away, other intelligence officials were playing the tape to some of the several hundred lesser-ranking al-Qaeda detainees held in pens at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And the reaction they got was even scarier: a senior U.S. official told TIME that detainees said some passages could be a call to action. That interpretation, along with reports from informants and intercepted communications flooding CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., sent waves of anxiety through the intelligence community...
...that it's more of everything," says Daniel Radcliffe, 13, who once again plays Harry with brainy subtlety (but whose voice has now dropped a good octave). "The first film was funny; this is even funnier. The first film had action. This has even more." It is also much scarier. Like Rowling's books, the movies are becoming darker and more intense as they progress. (After several delays, Rowling, who says there will be seven Potter books in all, will deliver the fifth novel next year.) Running against the Hollywood tradition of sugar-coating every pill, Columbus is eager...
Biological weapons present a scarier prospect. Iraq is believed to have fermentation equipment at animal-feed facilities near Baghdad and the ability to convert workaday centrifuges into Cuisinarts for whizzing up lethal agents. But weaponizing most pathogens so that airborne bombs can spray them effectively over large areas remains a challenge for Saddam's engineers. Nonetheless, a gram of anthrax could serve as a poor man's suitcase bomb: that's 1 trillion spores, enough for 100 million fatal doses. Hiding, transporting and disseminating that type of poison is relatively easy: no missiles are needed, just a crop duster, backpack...
...Washington player wants: unrivaled access without accountability. Perle uses his post as a springboard for his unilateralist, attack-Iraq views to try to whip the Bush Administration into action. But despite its name, the board does not make policy. As the Saudi episode shows, it can do something far scarier: give a false impression...
...Baan, as the Dai call it (Luosuo Jiang on Chinese maps) is about two hours' drive from Jinghong. The first part of the trip is scarier than the rafting: a twisting road dips and soars above the furious foamy rush of the Mekong's narrow gorges. Just when you're wishing you had found time to write your last will and testament, though, the road eases off into long, straight runs through rice paddies, and the previous hour's terror is left behind?much like the worst moments of river rafting, once the boat reaches calm waters. "We do fall...