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PURPOSE: Attach to the tap to remove toxins from drinking water...
...most microbes, and huge quantities of chemical toxins would have to be dumped into a reservoir to make many people sick, let alone kill them. (A U.N. study estimated that it would take 10 tons of potassium cyanide.) Drinking water might be threatened locally, however, if someone managed to tap the pipe going into a building or neighborhood or infiltrate a water-treatment facility. With this threat in mind, municipal water authorities have stepped up security...
...Tower suite reserved Thursday nights for the boys. Twenty guys converged in the room each week. They puffed on cigarettes and cigars, forming a smoky haze that mingled with the jazz music playing in the background. Over 30 forms of liquor lined the bar, and beer flowed from a tap. But the main attraction was always the card table in the middle of the room...
...wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon, Americans find themselves looking over their shoulders at every turn. Is it safe to fly? Safe to gather in a public place? Safe even to drink our own tap water...
...specified phone. In an era of "literally disposable phones," Ashcroft said, investigators need to be able to seek permission to monitor any landline phone, cell phone or pager that a suspect uses, or to go through e-mail from any computer he works on. But once the roving tap is okayed, no judge would further oversee how it was carried out, leaving the FBI to decide on its own how many devices to tap. What Ashcroft's critics predict is a world of "anticipatory monitoring" in which a multitude of innocent bystanders is caught up. It doesn't help that...