Word: vigilanteism
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As for issuing alerts, Chertoff says he doesn't want "to get up in front of the public and say the sky is falling if it's not." At the same time, he appreciates the value of a vigilant public. There have been recent cases, he says, in which a...
Other bug-based therapies for cancer take advantage of the body's natural response to invaders. To this end, scientists at the Texas Medical Center have enlisted the aid of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). More than 95% of the population is infected with EBV, a usually benign microbe that...
IS IT USEFUL TO KEEP AMERICANS A LITTLE ON EDGE? There is a value to having people be a little bit more vigilant. As with the shoe bomber or some more recent occurrences I am aware of, plots have been stopped because somebody noticed something about the kinds of things...
Such was the tenor of worldwide comment on the disappearance of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. from his father's Sourland Mountain home in Western New Jersey on the windy night of March 1. Last week the case passed into its third month with the child still missing, the abductors still...
There is no evidence, say intelligence agencies, that al-Zarqawi's agents have infiltrated the U.S. But authorities remain vigilant. Security sources tell TIME that just last week the FBI sent out two nationwide bulletins warning of a nonspecific threat to railroads in Detroit and Los Angeles. On her visit...