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...borders are porous, the government cannot keep track of routine visa violators, and the population is forever on the move. The U.S. is a sea into which evildoers can dive and remain submerged. Terrorists, like anyone else, have little difficulty obtaining guns or the simple makings for oil-barrel truck bombs. Now the new terror could be an even more lethal destroyer--microbes. Germ weapons are small, cheap, easy to hide, simple to dispense and horribly effective. They may be the threat of the near future...
WEAK POINT: Rube Goldberg-like take-offs and landings, utilizing a flimsy bicycle landing-gear arrangement. Pogo outriggers support the wings and drop away when the plane lifts off. On landing, "it's like riding a bike off the back end of a flatbed truck at 70 m.p.h.," says U-2 pilot Major Jeff Jungemann. As the plane descends, another pilot races behind it in a Chevy Camaro, radioing to the plane's pilot his distance to the runway...
...most wretched neighborhoods in America is shattered by the blare of an electronic siren. The girls know the drill: they file neatly out of the red brick firehouse while Lewis and his crew snatch up their coats and helmets. In a flash, all five firemen are aboard their truck and rocketing out of the station to handle one of the 70 emergency calls they receive each week at one of the busiest station houses in Chicago. The 17 fire fighters of Engine Co. 16, nearly all of whom are black, specialize in more than fighting the high-rise infernos that...
...sort of reverse adoption, each kid claims a fireman as his or her own. Some gravitate to Albert Shaw, who drives the truck and teaches chess at the kitchen table. Others crowd around Steve ("the Preacher") Ellerson, who gives haircuts and lectures on good grades. Andre Raiford, built like an oaken door, drills the children on multiplication tables. Each fireman imparts lessons in some area and helps enforce a strict behavior code. Swearing and drug dealing are prohibited. Faces must be clean, hair combed, hands washed. "All these kids know is what they see around the projects," says Lewis...
Almost no media organizations complied with the order. In fact, according to a satellite truck engineer with New England Cable News, "people laughed...