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Will these innovations make us safer? Don't forget that Maginot Line. And with terrorists, it's a never-ending contest. We close the old gaps; they probe for new ones. They thrust; we parry. In some ways, we've only just entered the fight. If nothing else, we'll soon be better armed. --Reported by Laura Locke/San Francisco, Eric Roston/Washington and Jyoti Thottam/New York
Twenty-one years ago, a quiet young Englishman named Philip Beale visited Java and fell in love with a ship. To be precise, it was a picture of a ship, a sculptural relief of a jaunty schooner, its bow thrust upward by a swell, carved some 1,200 years ago at Borobudur, the magnificent Buddhist monument not far from Yogyakarta. Roaming across the Indonesian islands on a grant to study traditional ships, Beale had read that sailors from the Malay Archipelago regularly crossed the Indian Ocean, and even established colonies in East Africa, centuries before Borobudur was built...
...focus of my administration." Domestic policy would remain important, he said, but his priority was taking the fight to an enemy far away. A shell-shocked America rallied behind its President, putting to rest all questions over the nature and extent of his electoral mandate, the cut-and-thrust of partisan politics giving way to a broad Beltway consensus that the President rode all the way into Baghdad. To those charged with ensuring a second term for President Bush, the war on terrorism may once have looked like a dream ticket...
...information to put in the dossier. Two weeks ago, after Kelly first came forward, the Ministry of Defense issued a release that described Kelly's rebuttal of Gilligan without naming him. But reporters soon identified him; indeed, they were led to Kelly after a quiet steer from government officials. Thrust into the limelight, and finally called to explain himself before the Foreign Affairs Committee, Kelly faced a terrible bind. If in chatting to Gilligan, he had suggested that Campbell "sexed up" the dossier, he may have overstated what he actually knew. Before the Committee, he either had to take responsibility...
...1990s, according to the Japanese media, and police are investigating to determine whether any more recent sales were made to the North. Jet mills crush solid objects with highly pressurized air, and are most commonly used to pulverize plastics and pharmaceuticals. They can, however, also boost missile thrust by turning solid rocket fuel into fine particles, and are a restricted export under Japanese...