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...want to acknowledge that, lest we lose the argument). We take soundbites from 60 Minutes, the New York Times Magazine—hell, Dateline NBC—and toss them around with a seeming familiarity more appropriate to third-grade history. It’s not that hard to sneak a nuclear bomb into Newark, we say. Sure it is, they’ve been improving port security ever since Sept. 11. All right, fine, well, how hard would it be for me to load a van up with fertilizer and set it off halfway across the bridge? We banter...
...barred to nonbelievers. But it's possible to gaze down on its gold-plated lotus domes from the second-story window of the Udai Silk shop across the street. Even from the relative concealment of the silken perch, cameras are still strictly forbidden. Once a customer managed to sneak in a shot, but the telltale flash sent police running upstairs. "They grabbed the camera, and ripped out the film," says proprietor Udai. The view is free?that is if you can resist the eager sales pitch. The slightest flicker of interest in the brightly hued bolts of fabric will send...
Security experts warn that terrorist groups could use container ships to sneak explosives, weapons of mass destruction and even operatives into the U.S. Since 9/11, Coast Guard officers have boarded 10,000 vessels; in the nine months before 9/11, they boarded just 200. But the U.S. still inspects only 2% of incoming seaborne cargo...
Giving TIME a sneak rehearsal tour, Lloyd Webber rushes around the production's South London offices dispensing advice and suggestions. "Producing someone else's work is a joy, and I can bring quite a bit to the party," he enthuses. In the main rehearsal room, around 40 casually clad actors are ready for daybreak in a Bombay slum. This, notes Lloyd Webber, is the show's opening: "You see the sunrise, Bombay slowly comes to life." The sequence is thrilling, with one man loudly selling chaya (tea), two women praying silently at a shrine, street sweepers, everywhere individual characters convincingly...
...need to finish no lower than third in its All-Ivy heat—comprised of top-seeded Yale, fourth-seeded Cornell, eighth-seeded Columbia and ninth-seeded Penn—to reach the finals. Harvard has yet to race Columbia, but it is the Crimson that hopes to sneak up on opposing crews...