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Science 28 June 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5577, p. 2311
DOI: 10.1126/science.296.5577.2311b
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COUNTERTERRORISM:
Academies Weigh In on Homeland Defense

David Malakoff

Get better organized, get more outside help, and get going--immediately. That's what the U.S. government must do to develop and deploy the technologies needed to fight terrorism, says a blue-ribbon scientific panel this week in a report likely to influence the shape of the Department of Homeland Security, proposed earlier this month by the White House. In particular, the panel says, the government needs a new institute to help it chart and coordinate counterterrorism research.

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