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The Han Chinese considered these northern lands, home to the indigenous, untamed Mongol hordes, to be outside the civilized world. And the Great Wall stands testimony to China's long struggle to protect the Middle Kingdom from the nomadic barbarians. But the wall was no obstacle to the heirs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Solitude and Sand, Try Inner Mongolia | 12/19/2001 | See Source »

The airline industry should have to help pay for the new federally mandated security at airports. The American people should not have to foot the entire bill. The industry's lack of foresight and quest for profits contributed to the lack of security that led to the events of Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 2001 | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

News quiz: Name the one airline in America that actually made money in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Final answer: Midway Airlines. The carrier, based in North Carolina (which has the same name as a Chicago-based airline that went bust in 1991), declared bankruptcy in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Largesse For A Defunct Airline | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

But that did not stop the airline's well-connected executives from asking the Department of Transportation for a chunk of the $15 billion airline-bailout package passed by Congress. The DOT, with encouragement from North Carolina politicians, graciously complied and cut a check for a cool, taxpayer-funded $10.8...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Largesse For A Defunct Airline | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

(2 of 2) For analysts of terrorism, the tape held rich pickings. Bin Laden confirmed what has been suspected by law-enforcement officials: that there was a clear hierarchy among the Sept. 11 hijackers and that they operated under a strict need-to-know code. Though all those who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy..." | 12/16/2001 | See Source »

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