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...edifice of known facts, as they would for a traditional prosecution. They must instead look around corners and try to understand a terrorist's intentions, habits, methods and psychology. And where the agency once turned tips around with the speed of a turtle, it now operates on a hair trigger, often disseminating information about potential suspects and plots before it has been corroborated by multiple sources. Even the wispiest bits of data are quickly fed to the entire intelligence community and in many cases to 18,000 local and state police agencies. "That's a sea change," says...
...North Korea is advancing its program to build miniaturized nuclear weapons. Pyongyang claims to have converted enough plutonium from spent nuclear fuel rods for at least five or six bombs. The U.S. and South Korea say the North has conducted recent tests to perfect high-explosive detonators used to trigger a nuclear explosion. Ongoing work at the North's nuclear plant at Yongbyon is well known. But over the weekend, the New York Times reported that American and Asian officials say there is strong evidence that the North has built a second, secret plant for producing weapons-grade plutonium...
...needs lower house approval - becomes law. Berlusconi's remote control worked better than George W. Bush's last week. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to reverse a regulatory ruling allowing TV networks to reach up to 45% of U.S. audiences. Reverting to the previous 35% cap could trigger a White House veto, and force Viacom's CBS network and News Corp's Fox to sell stations. Good news for angry media activists, but what...
...young Liberians who have known only war and killing, violence is a habit that may take years to outgrow. A big fear is that Taylor's exit will trigger an upsurge in violence, perhaps by Taylor's bands of teenage militias. Standing guard at the God Bless You Gate, Morris Diggs, 14, says he wants to go home and go back to school, but he doesn't even know where his parents are. "We are afraid. If Charles Taylor leaves, you think we are safe?" he asks. "When the President goes, who will take care of us? George Bush will...
...industry. It went on to fill theaters in 22 countries (the sequel already has distribution deals in 28) and to achieve cult status among connoisseurs of cinematic cruelty. Oddly, it was never released in the U.S., where its teen-on-teen mayhem was deemed too suggestive for impressionable and trigger-happy American youths...