City officials staged a mock explosion in a lower Manhattan subway station early Sunday, simulating an incident with 200 injured and 40 killed to test protocols and communications among emergency …
Iowa colleges take on computer viruses
Iowa colleges hit hard by computer viruses, spam and spyware are fighting back. Last fall, the viruses swarmed the state's three public universities, infecting thousands of computers and threatening …
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NYC Vows Most Guarded New Year's Eve Ever
Thousands of police will swarm New York's subways, sidewalks and airspace on what officials promised would be the city's most heavily guarded New Year's Eve ever. Some security measures — …
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Locust outbreak threatens Africa
Crops in north Africa are under threat from swarms of locusts, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Outbreaks of locusts have been reported in Mauritania, Niger and Sudan and observers fear …
Stolen Computer Search
The search goes on for a stolen laptop computer, a computer that contains sensitive information about security at all the commercial airports in the U.S. It happened during an airport security …
Soldiers Search for 8 Taken in Colombia
In an operation closely monitored by President Álvaro Uribe, hundreds of troops swarmed today over a coastal mountain range in northern Colombia searching for eight foreign tourists who were kidnapped …
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Why We Fed the Bomber
Straight down the back of ornery American life, there runs this mythic skunk stripe: the cantankerous outlaw protester. "Are you talking to me? . . . " And Eric Rudolph, 36, my fellow North …
Activism, Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism:
The Internet as a Tool for Influencing Foreign Policy Dorothy E. Denning Georgetown University Sponsored by the Nautilus Institute. The conflict over Kosovo has been characterized as the …
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Rebels Pull Back in Ivory Coast as French Move In
Rebel fighters have withdrawn from territory they controlled in western Ivory Coast as French and West African troops advanced in a massive display of force that may herald the end of an eight-month …
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Agencies Alter Tactics for Double-Bomb Threats
The terrorist tactic of detonating one bomb, then a second more powerful explosive is forcing local emergency personnel to rethink the way they would manage such incidents. The drill for so-called …
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