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...like summer camp. Actually, these are some of the activities of the sailors and soldiers on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, located in the Arabian Sea, who were given their first day off in 43 days. See our photo essay of what the sailors fondly call a "steel-beach picnic" at time.com/roosevelt
During the evening’s festivities, chefs from restaurants around Cambridge donned patterned chef’s hats and sunglasses to serenade Child with a goodbye song set to the tune of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls...
...Battery Park City is a stroller?s balm on a summer day. Walk down the mile-and-a-quarter promenade - past the lovers on the lawn, the kids in their rubberized playground, the skateboarders pretending that Manhattan is Manhattan Beach, the al fresco diners at Steamer?s Landing. Stop to admire the imposing bandshell of the World Financial Center?s Winter Garden; it has enough wonderfully wasted space to remind me of the dear dead original Penn Station. And across the plaza, the Hudson River, potent and polluted, Circe seducer of the first European settlers to this tiny plot...
...graders at Hartsfield Elementary School drew pictures for the President--and gave advice. "Dear George Bush," wrote Ian Pitts. "It's O.K. if you breate [sic] through grey smoke. But if black smokes gets in your lungs you will die." At the Colin Powell Academy for Success in Long Beach, Calif., students wrote to the Secretary of State. "I think we should sign a peace treaty," offered sixth-grader Arlene Lopez. Many schools held bake sales to raise money for disaster-relief funds--helpful to the destitute but also therapeutic for the donors. Esther Giller, director of Maryland's Sidran...
...strains of anthrax bacteria sent to Florida, New York and Washington were "indistinguishable," which suggested a concerted attack by a disciplined network. So did the origin of the envelopes: Trenton, New Jersey, in the same state where several hijackers lived before boarding their plane in Newark; and Palm Beach County, Fla., where Mohamed Atta learned to fly, investigated crop dusters and appeared one day at a pharmacy in search of something to soothe the bright red rash on his hands...