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...suspects was arrested - for the past seven years. "This is a bit too close to home for my liking." "The baseline anxiety level has been rising since 9/11," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University. Terrorists, he notes, are "looking for low-tech ways of making maximum mayhem." Substances like ricin - what Ranstorp calls "weapons of mass disruption" - fit the bill. As with the post-Sept. 11 anthrax attacks in the U.S., a small number of deaths can trigger a huge reaction. "Alert, not alarm," was the police message to the public and the health...
...behind the pioneering days of Zionism, the movement that campaigned to found the Jewish state and create a strong character in its young people, all of whom had to serve in the army. The phrase post-Zionism came to describe the country's effort to build an individualistic, high-tech economy. Most Israelis hoped their country would become like anyplace else: ordinary, boring and safe. But two years of violent intifadeh - bloody Israeli occupation of West Bank towns and frequent Palestinian suicide bombings, like the twin attacks in Tel Aviv that claimed 22 lives on Jan. 5 - have snapped Israelis...
...Spitzer concedes, "is generous to prosecutors." His interest picked up the following month when he learned that Merrill Lynch had settled promptly and magnanimously with a New York City pediatrician who charged that his $1.2 million portfolio had been nearly wiped out by Blodget's allegedly tainted boosterism for tech stocks, including InfoSpace. The $400,000 settlement energized Spitzer. "I looked at that," he says, "and thought, There has got to be something there...
WATKINS: It's disheartening to see that the FBI has as many problems as corporate America. In this country, we have a vacuum in leadership. We value the wrong people. Warren Buffett is boring, and he doesn't give too many interviews, but he didn't invest in tech stocks because he didn't understand how they made money. He was right. But we value splashy leaders...
...data-management companies to realize that if their software could find links in customer buying patterns and improve retailers' inventory decisions, perhaps it could find links among the government's vast terrorism-related intelligence warehouses and enhance the government's ability to prevent the next attack. After 9/11, many tech companies saw opportunities for both patriotism and profit. Oracle offered to donate the software to create a federal identity database. Siebel Systems CEO Thomas Siebel boasted to a House subcommittee that had his company's software been used by law-enforcement and intelligence organizations before 9/11, "there may have been...