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...most powerful message can come from the un-likeliest messenger. When Nkosi Johnson, an 11-year-old South African with AIDS, walked onto the stage at an international aids conference in Durban last year, he hardly seemed able to hold the microphone, let alone address 10,000 delegates. The shiny black suit he wore hung from a body ravaged by disease. The belt around his waist had six extra holes punched in it. He wore a diaper in case of diarrhea. Lit by a fearsome spotlight, the tiny figure paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath and began...
...likeliest source of most radioactive booty is Russia and the surrounding states, and the material they have to offer comes in two varieties. Top-quality, weapons-grade material is the only kind that can used to build a true nuclear-fission bomb, and is both hard to obtain and harder to turn into an explosive. But lower-grade radioactive rubbish is also dangerous. It can be fashioned into a so-called dirty bomb: a conventional explosive packed with waste that spreads radiation in all directions...
...leaders of both al-Qaeda and the Taliban may have slipped out of the country, or be trying to. Their favored destinations are thought to be Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. (U.S. officials are also trying to check movements into Somalia, Chechnya and Sudan.) In all three of the likeliest havens, the CIA has been working with local officials to round up the members of extensive al-Qaeda cells, while U.S. diplomats have been pressing their host countries to bolster surveillance at airports and border checkpoints. No U.S. special-forces operations have been launched against cells outside Afghanistan...
...Saddam be contained? Any diplomatic scenario depends heavily on Russia. Not only are rogue elements within Russia the likeliest source of fissionable material for Iraq's nuclear-weapons program, but the Kremlin has been Saddam's strongest ally in rejecting UNSCOM inspections. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Colin Powell has pressured Russia to change its stance, but so far he has met with resistance. Within the Administration, a battle is raging between Powell and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who proposes bombing Iraq for harboring terrorists. Dick Cheney is said to have sided with Powell, though that could change...
...with speeding that up). If consumers, flush with mortgage-refinancing cash and a hard-earned cynicism about the market's ups and downs, are going to carry us through, does Greenspan really want to plant an inflationary time bomb that could go off next winter, just when things are likeliest to pick up on their...