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...system vulnerable to terrorist threat? Not wanting to find out the hard way, power-industry executives have beefed up security since 9/11. But while key facilities are probably better protected, they are hardly foolproof. Attackers could break into a remote generating station and seize control, or cut through a fence to plant a time bomb during the night. "The bottom line is, it's pretty vulnerable," says a Senate energy expert. "There are key nodes out there that, if attacked, can knock out a pretty large section of the country...
...They have the best equipment and technology, and a power shortage can make such a big fuss in the United States. Now I am sure it will take them years to fix the electricity in Iraq." ALI SAGHBAL, a Baghdad power-station worker...
...fresh strategy and renewed vigor to cause trouble back home. A bus bombing that killed 15 people (including six children) in Helmand province on Aug. 13 kicked off perhaps Afghanistan's bloodiest week since the Taliban fell in late 2001. Four days later, hundreds of guerrillas attacked a police station in Paktika province and killed seven Afghan policemen. Four more cops were taken hostage during another raid nearby, and last Monday, nine policemen were murdered by heavily armed gunmen in Logar province, west of Kabul...
...forests of Colorado's Front Range, however, big burns were spaced farther apart, allowing flammable material to accumulate. These fires rolled through every few decades or so and occasionally burned extremely hot. Their legacy, says Merrill Kaufmann, a senior scientist with the U.S. Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station, was a mosaic of forested areas that alternated with clearings ranging from 5 acres to 100 acres in size...
...train station I meet two American women from Boston who flew all the way here to pray for a sick relative. As the train lurches forward, one pulls out her rosary and whispers a prayer. I turn away, but am thankful that I’ve seen her, and that I’ve seen Lourdes. Even though I’ve had no vision, and drawn no conclusion, I know I haven’t passed through this holy ground unchanged...