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Sitting alone on the top floor of a double-decker bus, it occurs to me that the reason for my solitude may be the fact that the bomb, which exploded on a double-decker bus, destroyed mainly its upper floor. But no, soon the floor fills with Londoners who will not let themselves be perturbed. Injunctions to continue as if nothing happened are indeed the most frequently heard refrain in the days after the attack—“we shall not let ourselves be affected,” the Brits say, “to give in would...
...Harvard College students who were living in London at the time of the subway and bus bombings last week are safe, University officials announced this week...
...entrances to some subway stations. The machines see through clothing and detect anything that interferes with solar radiation reflected by people's bodies. But it will cost tens of millions of dollars to outfit every tube station. And it will, of course, do nothing to protect the sprawling bus system...
...think the idea is to get back to normal as quickly as possible. That's the best way to show them it isn't going to work." PAUL BATTY, manager of a London bookstore near the sites of the King's Cross subway and bus bombings, on how Britons are coping with the terrorist attack...
...with what, in summer, it does best--preparing for a weekend's gardening, setting up pints of beer, snapping on a spaghetti-strap dress for a night's clubbing. On the steps of St. Pancras church, close to both the King's Cross bomb and the destroyed bus, a card had been placed among the bunches of flowers laid in remembrance of the victims. "The people who did this," it read, "should know that they have failed. They picked the wrong city to pick on." --Reported by Theunis Bates, Maryann Bird, Jessica Carsen, Andrea Gerlin, Helen Gibson, Lillian Kennett, Adam...