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...even as the steel moaned and the cracks spread in zippers through the walls, to get to the people trapped in the sky. We don't know yet how many of them died, but once we know, as Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "it will be more than we can bear." That sentiment was played out in miniature in the streets, where fleeing victims pulled the wounded to safety, and at every hospital, where the lines to give blood looped round and round the block. At the medical-supply companies, which sent supplies without being asked. At Verizon, where a worker...
...weight of all the floors above. Steel starts to bend at 1000[degrees]. The floors above where the plane hit--each floor weighing millions of pounds--were resting on steel that was softening from the heat of the burning jet fuel, softening until the girders could no longer bear the load above. "All that steel turns into spaghetti," explains retired ATF investigator Ronald Baughn. "And then all of a sudden that structure is untenable, and the weight starts bearing down on floors that were not designed to hold that weight, and you start having collapse." Each floor drops onto...
...just horrible, having to bear that news. It was just surreal,” Graham-Felsen said. “It was like a movie. I kept waiting for Steven Seagall to appear or something...
...times the page is in danger of being overrun by noisy capital letters as he mixes his fictional characters in with real life divas, brands and stars. Rushdie even creates his own version of Lara Croft, a tough-cookie doll named Little Brain (apparently no relation to the Bear Of), who having been created by Solanka, leaves him in the dirt, engendering some of the fury that now makes Solanka fear what he might do to his own son. His reaction is to create his own WWWeb borne world, in which he casts the characters of his life as cyborg...
...single counter-attack will rid the world of terrorism of the kind we saw yesterday," said Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday. Indeed, it is to be anticipated that the Bush administration will develop a layered response of short-term and long-term actions to bring to bear military, economic and political pressure to isolate and neutralize not only Bin Laden himself, but the movement that would almost certainly seek to continue even if he were eliminated. And that's a war in which the U.S. needs its allies more than ever...