But the U.S. government official briefed on the investigation rebuffed the idea that Todashev wasn't a threat -- noting, for instance, that he could have taken the agent's gun.
If your body and brain don't register something as a terrible threat, it doesn't cause stress-related problems later.
While distributing pricey e-reading devices isn't much of a threat to Gideons, it's likely that the proliferation of e-reading features on all mobile devices could make a dent in demand.
And so we share the information -- we don't raise the threat level.
"We are concerned that vulnerable families still living in temporary camps won't treat this storm as a serious threat after Tropical Storm Emily didn't hit Port-au-Prince as predicted, " warned World Vision's Meg Sattler in Port-au-Prince.
It's not just the "trans-panic" murders and the constant threat of day-to-day abuse if one doesn't "pass".
For now the biggest threat isn't Obama but cash-strapped state governments like New York's, where Governor David A. Paterson's income-tax hikes could push the top rate for New York City dwellers to 12.6%.
The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.
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But phones aren't the only common non-PC device that faces a real security threat.
But the absence of gunfire -- a welcome absence in this line of work -- doesn't mean they have never identified or mitigated a threat, Sullivan says.
In combating the threat, the large, all-purpose hospitals don't talk much about infection rates or medical results.
While that's not exactly been the case with Apple and a video-enabled iPod, the company's derision of portable video has certainly signaled that we shouldn't expect such a device before, say, the next major Earth-smashing asteroid threat.
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As for the new Schering-Merck entry, "We don't see this as a real competitive threat, " says Gary Palmer, a Pfizer vice president.
"We don't feel any threat from competing guides, " says Yuen, 52, in an e-mail.
Pfizer says not to worry too much--the Reddy's drug is different enough that it won't pose a serious threat.
Despite the looming threat of being replaced by phase-change memory, contemporary memory modules aren't quite ready to be shown the door -- engineers at Macronix have found a way to revive spent NAND flash cells.
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The Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella got sustained applause when she presented the carbon tax as a threat to the Australian way of life: "We don't want to de-industrialise our country, " she bellowed.
"We really don't know if it's a foreign or domestic threat, " said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
"It enhanced the brain's perception across the board, not only to things that are obviously a threat but also to things that aren't obvious but might be threats, " says Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Stony Brook University in New York and lead author of the article.
McKinsey believes, however, that this increase in financial institutions' debt disguises a positive trend: much of the debt is now of a longer-term nature, so poses less of threat to the stability of the economy (it can't be called in at a moment's notice, to the potential ruin of the borrower).
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