The American Medical Association has instituted a 16-hour course designed to give doctors the information and knowledge they need to cope with disaster. Despite frequent warnings from federal officials that terrorists could strike again, little has been done since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to fix the Emergency Alert System. The Senate tried to include $10 million toward developing such technologies in this year’s budget but the money was stripped out of the budget. In the U.K., BTO’s tech support said that ADSL service was “down for half the country” yesterday afternoon.”]