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...security officials across the country, “America on Alert” is more than a tag line on CNN. It’s the new way of life: the Centers of Disease Control are monitoring anthrax outbreaks, armed National Guardsmen are securing airports, fighter jets are flying combat air patrols over major cities and tall buildings have readied for quick evacuation. Vice President Richard Cheney has been moved to a secure undisclosed location...
...this area, Harvard’s vast fiscal assets provide the University with the chance to build up a strong set of resources. HUPD’s officers receive first-responder training in hazardous materials and other areas that could potentially be used to combat terrorism. Several of Harvard’s officers are ex-military officers with extensive security training. In addition, in a clear sign that the department has long been considering Harvard’s possible risk, HUPD had looked into purchasing a bomb-sniffing dog prior to last month’s attacks?...
From coast to coast, Americans experienced things for which they were quite unprepared. State troopers patrolled airports. "It was like traveling through a combat zone," said Marcia Brier, from Needham, Mass., of a trip from Boston's Logan Airport. At Reagan National Airport in Washington, the gleaming, airy terminal that opened in 1997 remained closed. A tanker carrying 33 million gallons of liquefied natural gas was diverted from highly populated Boston Harbor to Louisiana, just as a precaution. In Idaho and Maryland, there were panicky rumors of missing crop dusters. The Los Angeles subway was shut down for the first...
...South Korea puts its athletes through some of the most grueling training in sports, and its archers may face the toughest regimen of all. Archers regularly go on forced moonlit marches. At past sessions, they have handled snakes, practiced nighttime combat-style beach landings and run up mountains while carrying boats. Physically demanding, the weird regime also hones the mental toughness archers need to consistently plunk arrows into a bull's-eye 70 m away. But a few athletes are fighting back, criticizing such workouts as not worth the risk. Midway through the August training camp, which was meant...
...nation against terrorism by scrubbing the floors of my Army Reserve unit in Queens, New York City. (I'd been late on Saturday.) It was listless work - most of the boot-marks were waxed in long ago. Mainly I was trying not to get powdered bleach on my new combat boots...