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Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has spent more than $500 million to make America's seaports more secure. Sound like a lot? It isn't. That's about what the U.S. spends in Iraq in four days, notes STEPHEN FLYNN, whose new book on homeland security, America the Vulnerable, concludes that the U.S. is scandalously unprepared for the next terrorist attack. Why? Because it still doesn't see protecting the homeland as a priority. Flynn, a retired U.S. Coast Guard commander and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says our leaders harbor the delusion that...
...culinary debris is the latest culprit in dining hall closings, as the Eliot House dining hall shut its doors in the middle of lunch yesterday, forcing students to relocate to neighboring Kirkland House for the remainder of the afternoon. Eliot and Kirkland Dining Halls’ Customer Service Manager Stephen J. Mills said that as soon as staff found the sink clogged with scraps of food and plastic wrapping, a plumbing company was called. Besides the dishwashing area, no other parts of the dining hall were affected. Many students said their afternoons were not disrupted...
...owner of a local car dealership. Mohammad Amawi operates a small travel agency. El-Hindi, a married father of seven children ages 6 months to 11 years old, claims he was arrested Sunday by agents who entered his home without knocking and seized him at gunpoint. Says his lawyer, Stephen Hartman: "He steadfastly maintains his innocence." All three men pleaded not guilty on Tuesday and are being held in a federal correctional facility in Milan, Michigan, until their detention hearing...
...akin to attaching the same label to Britain (where shoe-bomber Richard Reid was born) or Germany (where a number of the 9/11 conspirators were based for a time). Dubai's port has a reputation for being one of the best run in the Middle East, says Stephen Flynn, a maritime security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. And Dubai Ports World, which is a relatively new venture launched by the government of Dubai in 1999, has a number of Americans well known in the shipping industry in its senior leadership. It operates port facilities from Australia through China...
Most worried of all is Stephen Roach, chief economist at U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley, who for several years has warned that the U.S.'s borrowing and consumption binge will come to a bad end, with consequences that include a likely fall in the value of the dollar. (And this bear doesn't cry wolf--Roach was right in predicting the dotcom crash.) The problems will not have gone away even if the dollar remains buoyant, he said, warning of a "dangerous degree of complacency" among investors. "The weakest link in the global-growth chain in 2006 is the most...