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POSSIBLE PLOT Unclear, though it may involve a vehicle-borne bomb...
...busts in Pakistan have helped provide new insights into bin Laden's network and the deadly activities it evidently had planned, the scope of the terrorist threat has only widened as officials learn more. Which plots might still be going forward and which have been foiled is frustratingly unclear. For all the progress against a deadly and elusive target--and progress it was--that is the nature of the war against al-Qaeda. Says Michael Mason, head of the FBI field office in Washington: "What we have over the U.S. is a net. At best, what we're doing...
DATA GATHERED The terrorists collected information on the structure of the building. It is unclear whether they were aware that the midtown-Manhattan building had engineering weaknesses and underwent structural modifications to correct them after its construction...
That question gnaws at Douglas Kenney, a professor of natural resources law at the University of Colorado in Boulder. As he sees it, "Everyone's pretty clear that the earth's getting warmer, but it's unclear just what that means. It might mean a wetter future or a dryer future. It might even mean a wetter future with no net gain." How is that possible? The answer lies in the impact rising temperatures are likely to have on the vast reservoirs of water locked up in the mountains in the form of snow...
...antagonists. Greenwald holds up polls comparing the political beliefs of Fox viewers to those of patrons of public broadcasting. The numbers are alarming (nearly 70 percent of Fox viewers believed Saddam Hussein was connected to the Sept. 11 attacks, compared to 16 percent of PBS viewers), but causality is unclear...