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Rumors lit on every tongue last week; the most unsettling focused on Sept. 22. Because Dr. Al-Badr Al-Hazmi, 34, a Saudi national who is being held as a material witness, had made three reservations to fly to San Diego via Denver on that date, people worried that terrorists would hijack another aircraft. (As it turned out, Al-Hazmi's two extra tickets were in the names of his wife and child.) More ornate scenarios had the bad guys finishing off New York City with a suitcase nuke or poisoned water supply. But the day passed, mercifully, without incident...
...streets," explains Sam Schwartz, head of an engineering consulting firm and former New York City traffic commissioner. "This means that there are alternative paths to almost any building. If some of the connecting water or sewer pipes are crushed in one direction, the building can still access these services via the pipes entering the building from another direction...
...anonymous allegation of sexual assault circulated Saturday via e-mail has reignited the contentious issue of 24-hour universal keycard access...
...pool of willing recruits in the cauldrons of youthful rage found in the impoverished suburban ghettoes that house many of France's 5 million people of Arab origin. The point of connection between the suburbs of Paris and Marseilles and Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan-based networks came via Algeria. There, the military-backed government overturned elections won by the Islamists, banned their party and drove its most extreme elements underground - where they've led a merciless war of terror against politicians and citizens alike. The most notorious Algerian terror faction, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), had been founded...
Immediately, the former Dunster resident and computer science concentrator set about contacting friends in the areas of the attacks via e-mail. As soon as he heard of their safety, he posted the good news on his website, www.jasonwhitlow.com. Fortunately, he discovered his close college friends were safe. On Tuesday I was stunned, depressed, and scared, he recounts. To this moment it is still in some sense unbelievable. But at the time, I needed to do something, for my own sake. What began as a dozen names quickly grew as the vast and powerful network of Harvard alumni struggled...