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To: greenspirit who wrote (14786)	11/1/2003 9:28:22 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793912

A modest Proposal __________________ Free Nathaniel Heatwole A Democrat comes up with a good national-security idea. Wall Street Journal Who says Democrats don't have good ideas about national security? Massachusetts Representative Edward Markey, who sits on the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, is at odds with the Bush Administration over the fate of 20-year-old Nathaniel Heatwole, the Maryland college student who admits planting box cutters and fake bombs on two Southwest Airlines planes. We'd say Mr. Markey has the better of the argument. Mr. Heatwole says he left the items on the planes as early as February and e-mailed the Transportation Security Administration at the time letting it know what he had done. But the messages were ignored, and the contraband went unnoticed until last month. This necessitated an inspection of 7,000 planes to make sure there weren't more dangerous items lurking on board. The TSA isn't happy with Mr. Heatwole. "He took an opportunity to seize the latest reality-show, self-celebrity-making tactic and get himself out in front of the news," spokesman Mark Hatfield said on CNN's "Late Edition" Sunday. "I'm confident that justice will be served in this case." Mr. Heatwole faces federal weapons charges and could spend 10 years in prison. Mr. Markey has a better idea. "As punishment for breaking the law, this college student should be sentenced to working 20 hours a week for the TSA," the Congressman said in a statement last week. "The TSA's punishment for this massive failure should be listening to this 20-year-old student--and subsequently closing loopholes that continue to worry passengers every day." Why not? Youthful computer hackers often end up working in computer security. Mr. Heatwole's crime wasn't trivial; its consequences were costly and inconvenient. But it's better to find out about security lapses this way than the way we did on September 11. opinionjournal.com

To: greenspirit who wrote (14786)	11/1/2003 10:43:38 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 793912

Being Invisible Next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street. This is technology you have to see to believe. Invisibility has been on humanity's wish list at least since Amon-Ra, a diety who could disappear and reappear at will, joined the Egyptian pantheon in 2008 BC. With recent advances in optics and computing, however, this elusive goal is no longer purely imaginary. Last spring, Susumu Tachi, an engineering professor at the University of Tokyo, demonstrated a crude invisibility cloak. Through the clever application of some dirt-cheap technology, the Japanese inventor has brought personal invisibility a step closer to reality. wired.com