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...apparent terrorist attack, two planes crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building in Arlington, VA. A fourth plane crashes in Shanksville...
DIED. LUIS MARDEN, 90, genteel, globe-trotting explorer and photojournalist for National Geographic whose expeditions, which often involved disappearing for months at a time, produced numerous gems of reportage; in Arlington, Va. Marden arrived at the magazine in 1934 at 21, and over the next 64 years he retraced the transatlantic route of Christopher Columbus, unearthed dinosaur eggs in Madagascar, discovered the wreck of the H.M.S. Bounty in the South Pacific and helped pioneer the use of underwater photography...
...Amber Alert system begin? The Amber Alert system originated in Arlington, Texas after the 1996 abduction and murder of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was taken while riding her bicycle outside her family's home. Time is a critical factor in abduction cases: Seventy-four percent of children who are murdered by their kidnappers are killed within three hours of being taken. And so, after Hagerman's death, the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Radio Managers proposed a method of quickly alerting the public, media and police when a child was kidnapped...
...least two students went to area hospitals after the accident, which occurred just after 11 p.m. at the Arlington stop on the Green Line...
...entire range of mental disorders defined in the DSM and trivializing the scientific advances for such disorders. It is regrettable that TIME could not see the damaging effect this skeptical story could have on people with serious disorders. DARREL A. REGIER, M.D., DIRECTOR DIVISION OF RESEARCH AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION Arlington...