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President Bush is calling himself a "war president," and his stance as a toughie on terrorism is one of his campaign platforms for the upcoming 2004 elections. But Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism chief, has testified before the 9/11 commission that the Bush administration actually took a rather blasé attitude towards the threat posed by Osama bin Laden. Then anthropologist Brian Fagan describes climactic changes over the last 15,000 years – and what might happen to us if global warming continues. Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat shares her third work of fiction, The Dew Breaker. And Li Cunxin, raised as a peasant in rural Maoist China, explains how he came to dance with the Houston Ballet and the Australian Ballet.