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...John Cloud...
...with her 400 strong I-banking training class in an accounting lecture held in an auditorium across the street from the World Trade Center. She remembers peeling up the bottom of her Oxford shirt to cover her nose as she ran down the streets of the Financial District, a cloud of debris following her just like Armageddon...
...country to be on high alert for new waves of terrorism. Simultaneously, they told us to go about our business as usual despite the vague, frightening warning. Ari Fleisher, President George W. Bush’s spokesperson, said that carrying on our regular day-to-day activities under the cloud of terrorist threats should be the “new normalcy...
...conventional wisdom about anthrax, it takes 8,000 to 10,000 spores to trigger a case of inhalational anthrax. And while the letter that arrived at Senator Tom Daschle's office probably contained billions of spores, they would have to be aerosolized first--puffed into an inhalable cloud. That's easy enough to do in an envelope if there is even a small opening and enough pressure, such as that generated by a mail-sorting machine. Any gaps in the tape that sealed the Daschle letter, or even the porosity of the envelope, therefore, could explain the inhalational-anthrax cases...
...Poetry, at its best, is a cloud of subjects in opposition to one another. It’s not the best way to convince somebody of something. If I were moved to be an activist, I would probably be writing essays. Not that I haven’t had times when I’ve been moved to activism. During the Gulf War, I was part of a contingent that blockaded recruitment centers, because I thought it was a war without merit, a travesty. I feel like there are a lot of options besides going to war, and it seems...