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...TIME raises serious questions about whether the government has set the bar too low and allowed plant operators to skimp on security. Many guards working in nuclear plants and some senior security experts working for the U.S. government say the defenses facilities rely on are too meager to thwart an assault by a force the size of the one al-Qaeda put together when it attacked the U.S. on 9/11--Mohammed Atta's band of 19 hijackers. "The NRC and the nuclear power industry," says a senior U.S. antiterrorism official, "are today where the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] and airlines were...
...nuclear plants to stop airplanes from crashing into them. Antiaircraft batteries and the troops to operate them would also help but could pose hazards to innocent aircraft drifting off course. NRC officials say the likelihood of installing missiles or shields is virtually nil. The agency believes the place to thwart an aerial-attack plot is at the airport, not at the plant...
...more than the wealthy. This is an idea Democrats would embrace if they had the courage of their "progressive" convictions. But the donkeys appear to be more obsessed with social issues (like abortion rights) than with programs to benefit the poor, and most obsessed with short-term tactics to thwart Bush, regardless of the quality of his proposals...
...most impressive contest of the season came March 6 against NYU, a member of the top-tier Tait Division. Though the Crimson dropped the first frame, it took three of the next four games to thwart the Violets’ comeback bid and extend its winning streak to nine...
...years; in Scottsdale, Arizona. At a time when towering players were thought to be insufficiently nimble, the bespectacled, 2.08 m DePaul graduate single-handedly dominated the newly formed National Basketball Association, drawing crowds, forcing the league to establish new rules (the original 1.83 m key was expanded to thwart his offensive dominance), and once prompting New York's Madison Garden officials to promote a 1949 game on its marquee as GEO. MIKAN VS. KNICKS...