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...alienated." McMorran cautions parents to realize that kids, when dealing with a horrific event, may not have the vocabulary or maturity to name the emotions they are experiencing, or that initially putting feelings on paper may make them too "real." Some kids seem to benefit from writing a fantasy scenario: a story in which they are heroes or a scene from a movie that can be rewritten according to their imagination...
...media are terrorists in their own fashion, working continually to produce (good) sense, but, at the same time, violently defeating it by arousing everwhere [sic] a fascination without scruples, that is to say, a paralysis of meaning, to the profit of a single scenario...
...Saddam be contained? Any diplomatic scenario depends heavily on Russia. Not only are rogue elements within Russia the likeliest source of fissionable material for Iraq's nuclear-weapons program, but the Kremlin has been Saddam's strongest ally in rejecting UNSCOM inspections. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Colin Powell has pressured Russia to change its stance, but so far he has met with resistance. Within the Administration, a battle is raging between Powell and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who proposes bombing Iraq for harboring terrorists. Dick Cheney is said to have sided with Powell, though that could change...
Wolfowitz has asked former CIA director R. James Woolsey to look for that evidence. If he finds it, one scenario has the U.S. going to allied Arab governments and presenting them with a clear operational plan for taking out Saddam. "They would basically be asked to salute," says a U.S. official. "What the U.S. would have to guarantee is that it be over quick and that it would work...
...Health and government officials, alarmed by recent stockpiling of the drug, eagerly point out that exposure to anthrax is still contained to an infinitesimal portion of the population. They also warn there are dangers to self-medication, ranging from common side effects like nausea to the worst-case scenario: Overuse of the drug could produce Cipro-resistant bacteria...