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...last week firefighter Chris Fields joined the congregants at the fence. Fields, 31, was immortalized when a camera captured him carrying the body of one-year-old Baylee Almon from the bomb site--an image that came to symbolize all the heroism and tragedy of that bloody Wednesday. Thrown together by chance, Fields and Baylee's mother Aren have become friends; Almon says he calls her a couple of times a week just to check in. Speaking not just for himself but also for the hundreds of rescue workers who helped piece Oklahoma City together during those awful days, Fields...
...burials in Oklahoma City began -- first for tiny Baylee Almon, the one-year-old whose photograph, taken as she was lifted out of the rubble, was used to symbolize the city's loss on front pages worldwide. By week's end the death toll from the terrorist bombing of the federal building had passed 120. Rescue workers redoubled their efforts as they approached "the pit," a huge mountain of rubble at the center of the explosion where the building's Social Security office and day-care center had collapsed together and where many more dead were expected to be found...
ALMOST EVERYONE NOW KNOWS AREN Almon's daughter Baylee. The photograph of the one-year-old cradled in the arms of a fire fighter has become the symbol of catastrophe all over the world. "Hard Copy has been bugging me for an interview," said Aren. "I said no, and the guy just kept taking pictures." Baylee had just marked her first birthday on April 18. At 7:45 the next morning, her mother left her at the federal building's day-care center and went off to her new job at an insurance company. "She was learning how to walk...
Correspondent Pat Cole obtained one of only two interviews granted by the family of Baylee Almon, the one-year-old infant whose picture, taken as she lay cradled in a fireman's arms, has become an icon of national trauma. Cole, who usually reports for Time out of Los Angeles, has interviewed survivors of earthquake, fire and anarchy. "The only way to talk to people in that state is to let them know you have total sympathy for them," he says. "In this case, believe me, it wasn't hard...
...chains are capitalizing on a backlash against diet plans that take pounds off but rarely keep them off. "People want their old favorites, and they're questioning the harsh diets more and more," observes Lynne Scott, director of the Baylor College of Medicine's Diet Modification Clinic. Says Lyn Almon, a dietitian at Emory University Hospital: "There are so many mixed messages bombarding dieters that some people are throwing up their hands and going back to their old eating habits. There's a feeling, 'If I'm going to lose the weight and then just regain it, why start...