
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO: On the morning of September 11, the world became a worse place to live.
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Like generals, technologists who implement new security measures are often fighting the last war. The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 by plastic
explosives in 1988--and the fear that TWA flight 800 had been downed by a bomb in 1996--spurred investments in research and actual purchasing of new
This article was originally published with the title Facing a New Menace.
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