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...suicidal behavior of the hijackers in the air will mandate a total revision of emergency procedures in the cabin. In the past, the idea was to try to keep hijackers calm and get the plane on the ground so negotiations could commence. Although airline staff members get annual training in handling hijackers, a kamikaze mission was not in any scenario. In the past, "if someone outside the cockpit was threatening to chop someone's head off, nine times out of 10, you'd open the door," says a Cathay Pacific pilot based in Hong Kong...
...husband's message only once. She is trying to resist playing it over and over. "I want to keep listening to it, I want to hear his voice, but I don't know if that's a healthy thing to do." She is glad he called, because "hearing his calm voice, hearing his love for me, was helpful." But it also saddened her, she says, making her feel like a witness to her husband's murder...
...urge fellow Americans at home and abroad to act with calm and wisdom. In our calm, we are better brothers and a far more formidable enemy. If we too become indiscriminate terrorists, the hijackers have truly won. MICHELLE ANSORGE Minneapolis, Minn...
...trampled by others. I slowed down after running to the next block. It was then that I met Kristin, one of the three new friends I made on the street that morning. Kristin was crying, so I went over to hug her, hoping to comfort her and also to calm my own nerves. Kristin and I walked some more, away from other tall buildings, having no real idea where we could go that would be safe. When we had gone just about as far as we could, we stood in a long line for a pay phone. Kristin...
...could have stopped there - a gem of a line, a Hallmark-card-sized summation of the littlest and best things we can do - but when American shores are smoldering still, Bush must have realized that more couldn't hurt. Be calm, not scared; be tolerant, not blind; be generous, not selfish; be patient, patient, patient, at airports and skyscrapers and landmarks and hotels and traffic stops and bus stops and train stations and anywhere else it is possible to imagine a public vulnerability, which of course is everywhere...