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America has been one big neighborhood-watch group for 17 months, but this was only the second time we have gone up to code orange, and for once the warnings seemed to get specific. Pressed to give odds in a private briefing for Senators, one source says, Ridge put the chance of a major attack some time in the next couple of weeks at 1 in 2, though his spokesman denies he was that precise. Still, lawmakers were inspired to ask him if they should send their families out of town. Officials don't have much color in their faces...
...Band-Aids. This week Ridge will roll out the Ready Campaign, which offers advice about terrorist threats and the promise that "with a little planning and common sense, you can be better prepared for the unexpected." But in private there were arguments about whether to raise the alert code, and there will be more about when to lower it, a debate over its value in protection weighed against its cost in panic. "If we're going to have any shot at the safety part of this, we're going to have to have people feel the need to pass...
...make a wallet out of any leftover tape. "I don't want to spend six weeks holed up in my bedroom with a roll of duct tape and a bottle of water," says Bob Merrick, a Hollywood production assistant, "because someone came on TV and said we're on code red. Then they'll go back on TV and say it was a mistake. I'll have wasted six weeks of my life, and the next...
...ISSUE The Secret of Life Cracking the DNA code has changed how we live, heal and imagine the future...
...ISSUE The Secret of Life Cracking the DNA code has changed how we live, heal and imagine the future...