CLOSING THE GATES

Alarm Bell in the Library

By DAVID L. WHEELER

Urbana, Ill.

On a damp March morning that bears the promise of sun, a lone bicyclist sails by the red-brick library, heading from the Quad toward the stadium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Inside the library, the faint smell of old paper pervades. It's an unlikely setting for a homeland-security crisis.

But the whisper quiet...

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