Word: subway
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...Khan and Mohamed Azmath, in connection with the investigation may have overlooked intriguing evidence. The Wall Street Journal reported finding a 1995 issue of TIME in the men's Jersey City, N.J., apartment last week. The TIME cover story was about the Sarin gas attack on a Tokyo subway. Also found was a copy of U.S. News & World Report with a cover on killer microbes...
...will be other terrorists attacks and other American casualties--but you can't live your life like you're the next to go." How much sleep do we have to lose, how many routines do we change, before we should count ourselves as casualties? If we stop taking the subway, are we wounded? What if we skip a grandchild's baptism because we don't want to get on the plane? Have they won? That which does not kill me makes me stronger--but who decides which it will...
Despite the terrible threat of chemical and biological terrorism, it has never been very effectively accomplished. One exception was a horrifying event in Tokyo, when a nerve gas called SARIN, an agent originally used by the Nazis, was placed in five subway cars during rush hour, killing 12 and sickening thousands...
...subway poisoning seems to represent an aggressive, outward-reaching insanity...It suggests a new type of evil, a terrorism whose demands are so personal and obscure that no one can understand them, let alone satisfy them...
...Saturday most of the patients who survived the subway gassing had left St. Luke's Hospital in central Tokyo and were improving steadily. But new cases keep streaming in. These patients' ailments are not physical but psychosomatic. Yet they come by the hundreds, and they truly believe they have been poisoned...