Bombing underscores New York subway system`s vulnerability
(WorldNews Business)

NEW YORK (AP) - The crude pipe bomb that exploded beneath the streets of New York this week served as a chilling reminder of the vulnerability of the city`s subway system, a 24-hour-a-day operation with 472 stations and more than 5 million daily riders. While police say the nation`s largest subway system has some of the tightest security possible that still allows busy New Yorkers to get where they`re going, they acknowledge they can`t be everywhere or anticipate every kind of attack, particularly in this era of lone-wolf terrorism. `It`s very difficult, and it`s getting harder,` John Miller, the New York Police Department`s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said on...