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...damage our industry," he told Parliament in Canberra. The protocol requires greenhouse gas emissions to be cut back to 1990 levels. Howard says Australia will ratify the agreement if the U.S., which produces 36% of the world's carbon emissions, also signs. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS Enduring Damage After the oil tanker Jessica ran aground on San Cristobal in January 2001, scientists thought that the Galapagos Islands' wildlife had had a lucky escape. But researchers now believe that marine iguanas, which are unique to the islands, are particularly vulnerable to pollution and that 62% of the population on the island of Santa...
...nation's food supply and nuclear attacks on major U.S. cities precisely because these remote threats are the ones for which adequate defenses are not yet in place. The Coast Guard is arming itself against a possible terrorist attempt to destroy a major U.S. coastal city by detonating a tanker loaded with liquefied natural gas. The Bush Administration is bracing for another disaster. "We're as vulnerable today as we were on 9/10 or 9/12," says presidential counselor Karen Hughes. "We just know more." Here is what TIME has learned about America's vulnerabilities--and how the U.S. is working...
...disappearance of a truck loaded with chemicals helped confirm fears among many investigators that the next wave of terror could come not from deadly germs but from a simple truck carrying explosives or some other kind of deadly goo. Why fiddle with bacteria when you can simply drive a tanker full of gasoline into a building...
...disappearance of a truck loaded with chemicals helped confirm fears among many investigators that the next wave of terror could come not from deadly germs but from a simple truck carrying explosives or some other kind of deadly goo. Why fiddle with bacteria when you can simply drive a tanker full of gasoline into a building...
...which they were quite unprepared. State troopers patrolled airports. "It was like traveling through a combat zone," said Marcia Brier, from Needham, Mass., of a trip from Boston's Logan Airport. At Reagan National Airport in Washington, the gleaming, airy terminal that opened in 1997 remained closed. A tanker carrying 33 million gallons of liquefied natural gas was diverted from highly populated Boston Harbor to Louisiana, just as a precaution. In Idaho and Maryland, there were panicky rumors of missing crop dusters. The Los Angeles subway was shut down for the first time in its history, as passengers complained...