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Engine 54 sent 15 men to the first report of trouble Tuesday morning. None came back. The 45 fire fighters left behind spent an exhausting week consoling their colleagues' loved ones, digging through the wreckage, hopeful and fearful of finding their brethren. "I don't have words," says 12-year veteran Tom Hogan. "We have no information for the families of our guys. I just consider them missing. Hopefully there'll be a few more miracles today." When their 24-hr. shifts end, they return to the site on their own time. "It's not a 9-to-5 thing...
...Today's well-educated extremist, who keeps in touch with his brethren in Algeria or Indonesia through the Internet, doesn't employ the fire and brimstone of the village cleric to justify terrorist acts. Instead, he sees the conspiracy against Islam in geopolitical omens: foreign debt, IMF restrictions, wars against Muslims in Chechnya and Bosnia, and the Palestinians versus Israel. But often this cool rhetoric masks a hair-trigger emotionalism, an angry hurt. As one senior Pakistani police counterterrorism expert, Muhammed Shoaib Suddle, remarked: "What drives people to this madness? It has nothing to do with reality but with...
...victories. They knew the tenuous thrill of relying upon someone else to be fierce in competition and supportive in practice. They had learned, together, how unforgiving the world can be in competition and defeat. They were all members of a team, and at that vigil, in remembrance of their brethren, they were all teammates...
...northern Israeli town of Nahariya appears to have been a local Israeli-Arab, rather than an infiltrator from the West Bank. Even though Israeli-Arab leaders rushed to condemn the attack, the idea that Palestinian Islamist groups such as Hamas have support networks among the 1 million of their brethren that live inside Israel-proper is a sobering one for Israel's security establishment...
...Southwest was also the first of the large airlines to embrace the possibilities of the Internet, and has been the most successful major in marketing and selling tickets online. And it's on the battlefield of the Web where Southwest may make its most determined stand against its brethren. Southwest, which has maintained its rebel streak even as its grown to rival its competitors in size, has filed a lawsuit "to protect itself and its customers from potential harm." From whence the threat? A new travel website, called Orbitz, which is to Southwest the airline industry version of a nuclear...