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Snatch the President from his spinners, kill the TelePrompTer, unleash the Everyman within--and George W. Bush knows how to buck up a country. Last week, after getting intelligence that set off a second high alert, Bush ignored the advice of his Secret Service and traveled to Yankee Stadium for the first home game of the World Series. Alone on the pitcher's mound, not an agent in sight, with thousands rooting for him, he took his own sweet time and delivered a clean strike...
...blame a mom for getting frazzled? A night that is designed to unleash a kind of controlled anarchy comes this year at a time of national neurosis. Is it possible to reconcile the two? At Halloween, says Jack Santino, a professor of popular culture at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, "we acknowledge the random evil in the world and give it a central place. And it's O.K., because it is playful. It is a safe time to deal with the unsafe." But, Santino says, the eruptions of Sept. 11 make it hard to feel playful...
...vision thing: "The 6.5 million application developers for Microsoft's operating system are going to unleash a whole new level of creativity. All of a sudden there will be hundreds of thousands of new mobile applications, and the wireless medium will change substantially...
...strikes, they argue, have the opposite affect, working like inoculations. Soldiers become used to the raids, scornful of them, and gradually lose their fear. Around Kabul the U.S. has opted for small strikes. This is not quite the torrent of fire that U.S. psywar communications here have threatened to unleash on the Taliban...
...chances of such an attack happening anytime soon are remote, most of the terrorism experts consulted by TIME agree. For starters, it takes a lot more money to build, research or steal a weapon of mass destruction than to hijack a plane or unleash a truck bomb. It also takes a lot more brainpower. Says Amy Smithson, a chemical and biological weapons expert at the Henry Stimson Center in Washington: "I can sit here and dream up thousands of nightmare scenarios, but there are a lot of technical and logistical hurdles that stand between us and those scenarios...