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...been quiet at home this season, the terrorism alert dozing at code yellow, telling people to be aware but not afraid. You can live on the edge only for so long before you drink the bottled water and use the duct tape for packages and just hope for the best. A CNN/TIME poll last week found people worrying more about the economy than terrorism. Yet more than half of all Americans think things are not back to normal and never will be. It has become easy to wonder whether the President has done too little to protect the country...
...years after that day in September, the nation is still worried about terrorism. At the airports we're taking off our shoes, at work we're flashing our badges, and at home we're making sure the duct tape is where we can find it in the dark. But these rituals seem inadequate for coping with some truly terrifying scenarios: "dirty bombs" slipped into the country, a smallpox outbreak. Well, there's help on the way. A variety of companies and laboratories, some fostered by Washington, are rushing to produce technologies that address our deepest post-9/11 fears. Many...
...some will improve our sense of safety. Because terrorists can pick targets anywhere, counterterrorism has to defend everywhere--from airports to office buildings to cargo ships to hospitals. Sept. 11 shed an urgent light on our vulnerabilities and galvanized us to protect ourselves with something better than duct tape. So get ready for the next wave of high-tech defense: radiation detectors, Internet safeguards, handheld anthrax "sniffers." There's no panacea, but in a world of ancient hatreds, modern shields still have their uses. Here's what's next in three key areas...
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...ESPN taped the one-month event at Binion's last May, piping the view of the hole cards into tape machines secured by armed guards to prevent cheating. Then they added play-by-play in postproduction. "You don't see everything they play," says McEachern. "You see a representative number of hands, exciting hands, to be TV friendly." In between the action, there are refreshingly cheese-free player profiles introducing the likes of Annie Duke, the top poker-playing woman, who came in 10th in 2000 while eight months' pregnant; Dutch Boyd, a math genius who went to college...