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To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (5841)	10/17/2001 3:28:43 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Common sense, people. In the case of a port, you seal off simply a larger area, say for instance, an entire warehouse filled with 10,000 containers and you irradiate the entire area. The idea is not to search them all but rather to kill off any dangerous organic materials inside. Yes, common sense is required. For example: 10,000 twenty-foot equivalent containers occupy a MASSIVE area. "[some ships] have a carrying capacity of 4,000 to 4,900 TEUs and load of 56,000 to 75,000 metric tons. The length of the vessel can be about 900' (275 meters) and the beam---the widest part of a ship---can be about 125' (38 meters). The size of vessel is huge compare to a standard football field having a goal line of 300' (91.44 meters) and an end line of 160' (48.77 meters)." [almost three football fields not to mention the depth] I'd love to know how much radiation would be required to cleanse all these containers (which by the way are all made out of heavy steel!) in an expedient manner. The cure will undoubtedly be worse than the problem. This is not going to happen.

To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (5841)	10/17/2001 3:34:20 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

One weakness of America is one of its greatest strengths: optimism. That positive attitude contains one risk, and that is that the nation is governed by a reactive, rather than a proactive and preventative frame of mind True, and optimism is not the only weakness. Provincialism is another. Until now, to get good news on other parts of the world you had to watch the BBC here in America--no American news station was concerned with anything but domestic issues. Provincialism also in terms of not understanding the psyches of other countries. Another huge weakness is our scale. That's what Mike's trying to get at, I think. We're enormous. We're just porous in too many places. Think of the massive length of our borders both north and south, and the coastlines. The huge amount of import and export. Its a weakness we'll never be able to solve.