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...Extra bottled water 31% 69% Extra food supplies 30% 70% Vaccines for anthrax or smallpox, if available 25% 74% A gun or rifle 22% 77% An electric generator 18% 81% A gas mask...
...There, surrounded by talismans--a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow of the crumbling Twin Towers, and a large Tupperware container of Wheaties--Giuliani shook the candidates down: either agree to give him three extra months in office, he said, or he'd run against them, and win. Well, one thing is for sure: if Rudy is finding time for power politics, things must be getting back to normal. The two Democrats facing an Oct. 11 runoff were split on what to do. Mark Green...
...trail in Rudy Giuliani's wake is to feel like the Red Cross ladies handing out aspirin and apples in the temporary commissary outside his office: I wanted to hug him. But that's not the same as handing him an extra four years. As for an extra three months, I wonder if holding the city together at a time when it could have fallen apart doesn't merit the extended time, not as a gift to him but as a gift...
...Dummies?" asks a guest at a dinner party in Des Moines, Iowa. We're spending a lot on defense right now, enlisting sentries and maintaining checkpoints that provide the kind of security we need to go about our business. Smell the tap water before you drink it. Carry extra cash. Plan your escape route...
...about to change, say security consultants. Some countries--though not the U.S.--now offer multinational companies access to their government "intelligence indexes," which include lists of people suspected of terrorist activities, money laundering and other illegal acts. When companies are hiring foreign nationals, an index check "can provide extra safety," says William Daly, a senior vice president with Control Risks Group, a corporate intelligence firm based in London...