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hat’s really all I know right now,” Shake said as he wrapped an arm around his wife and muted the game show they’d been mostly ignoring on TV. “What I can’t figure is why the various outfits that are supposed to be so damn concerned with this kind of stuff aren’t listening—or reacting for that matter.”
“You know they probably get hundreds of tips like this, right?” Chan picked up a thick folder of student essays from her International Relations seminar at U-T and began to page through the stack. “Most of them come from paranoids and racist yahoos, so they don’t get their panties in a bunch over everything or they’d start to miss the real threats.”
“I think this is a real threat—which is why I want to go take a look for myself. Unless you’ve got some strong and reasonable obje
