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...preferring to focus on its failures. The need for an impartial international institution to manage this crisis is paramount. The road ahead for Afghanistan is rocky, filled with too many pitfalls for any one nation to traverse alone. The U.S. and the U.N. must effectively build a nation from scratch, as Afghanistan’s infrastructure and institutions have been decimated over its many decades...
...trust of the rest of the intelligence community. The largest agencies, the NSA, the FBI and the CIA, enjoy tremendous autonomy and are viciously territorial. For these agencies to share information with each other and the White House and to take orders from the President, Ridge will have to scratch and claw every inch of the way. Unless the Office of Homeland Security is given some power over the budgets of those agencies, they’re unlikely to respond...
...famine. Fighting and hunger have uprooted huge numbers of civilians. More than 3 million Afghans already huddle in bordering states, and the U.N. fears 1.5 million more will flee the country in the current fighting. When the war ends, the country and its economy will have to start from scratch...
...Even in the highly unlikely case that you are diagnosed with anthrax, you have an extraordinarily good chance of surviving with nary a scratch to show for it. The majority of people diagnosed these days have cutaneous anthrax, which is very easy to treat and has never proven fatal in modern times. Inhalation, or pulmonary anthrax, is a bit scarier, but given the right antibiotic (of which there is plenty) you're still looking at better-than-good odds of survival...
...plane fleet, decided that the bars weren't up to the job. "[That bar] is simply a feel-good measure," says one pilot from a major carrier. Frontier's engineers were unable to find any acceptable hardened cockpit doors quickly and eventually built their own from scratch. They will have shallow metal grates that cover the entire door, and deadbolts...