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Contents
Preface vii
I. Overview of Homeland Security
1
Editors’ Introduction 3
1) How Safe Are You? Fort
Worth Star-Telegram 5
2) Amid Safeguards, Threat
Remains. Muriel Dobbin. Sacramento Bee 9
3) Homeland Insecurity. Merrell
Noden. Popular Science 14
4) Detecting the Threat:
Technology and the War on Terror. Shane Harris. Government Executive 22
5) The General Nobody Knows.
Michael Hirsh. Newsweek 30
II. Local Security and First
Responders 33
Editors’ Introduction 35
1) "First Responders"
Find Their Jobs Even Tougher. Ed Timms. The Dallas Morning News 37
2) Their 9/11 Response: Be
Prepared. Richard T. Cooper. The Los Angeles Times 41
3) Are State and Local
"First Responders" Getting the Federal Funding They Say They Need?
David Clarke. CQ Weekly 47
4) Can We Talk? Ellen Perlman. Governing
52
5) Pounds of Cure. Kim A. O’Connell.
American City & County 59
III. Intelligence Gathering and
Civil Liberties 63
Editors’ Introduction 65
1) Could It Happen Again?
Michael Duffy. Time 67
2) Mission Impossible? Jean
Kumagai. IEEE Spectrum 74
3) Digging Through Data for
Omens. Dana Hawkins. U.S. News & World Report 83
4) Can We Be Safe and
Free? Gene Stephens. USA Today Magazine 86
5) From A Guide to the PATRIOT
Act. Dahlia Lithwick and Julia Turner. Slate 94
IV. Immigration and Border
Patrols 105
Editors’ Introduction 107
1) The Big Bad Border. Nina
Shapiro. Seattle Weekly 109
2) Migrant Smugglers Traffic in
Terror, Federal Officials Say. Bruce Finley. The Denver Post 118
3) Anti-terrorism Plans Stall.
Brad Heath. The Detroit News 123
4) Report on PATRIOT Act Alleges
Rights Violations. Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom 127
5) Boxed Out. Madhusree Mukerjee.
Scientific American 130
V. Securing Airways and Ports
133
Editors’ Introduction 135
1) Bumps in the Sky. Daren Fonda
et al. Time 137
2) Seeking Safe Harbors. Pamela
Sherrid. U.S. News & World Report 143
3) U.S. Port Security: Is X-ray
Enough? Abraham McLaughlin. The Christian Science Monitor 146
4) Defending Our Shores and
More. Marilyn Rauber. The Tampa Tribune 148
VI. Hard and Soft Targets 151
Editors’ Introduction 153
1) How Willing Is Private
Industry to Identify Its Vulnerabilities and Protect Critical
Infrastructure? Chris Logan. CQ Weekly 155
2) Locking Down on System
Security. Beth Wade. American City & County 161
3) Nuclear Terrorism: Assessing
the Risk. Richard Hantula. World Almanac & Book of Facts 168
4) Are We Safer?: Public Health.
Amanda Spake. U.S. News & World Report 174
Bibliography 177
Books 179
Web Sites 181
Additional Periodical Articles
with Abstracts 183
Index 191
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