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Slate's Hey Wait a Minute: U.S. Safer Than You Think

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By Noah Adams

Published August 3, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Are we relatively safe from domestic terror? NPR's Noah Adams speaks to Slate contributing writer Daniel Byman about reasons for optimism on the domestic terror front. Byman encourages Americans to take solace in the fact that there hasn't been another domestic terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001, despite periodic terror alerts.

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Noah Adams, long-time co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, brings more than three decades of radio experience to his current job as a contributing correspondent for NPR's National Desk., focusing on the low-wage workforce, farm issues, and the Katrina aftermath. Now based in Ohio, he travels extensively for his reporting assignments, a position he's held since 2003.

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