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...Conversely, there are "thousands and thousands" of reasons not to let anthrax anxiety take over our lives. That's the number of people who've been tested for anthrax, according to Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, who gave a press conference Thursday in hopes of calming public nerves. Take comfort in the numbers: Seven out of many thousands leaves the rest of us with pretty good odds of never, ever contracting the disease...
...toilet is accentuated by its hand-crafted wooden seat, a throne designed according to the highest standards of excellence and comfort. It is defined by a leveraged flushing box, floating majestically above the seat and operated by a lavish gold side-chain. The bowl itself is adorned with intricate etchings, carved by a skilled New England craftsman. As one rests upon the seat, attending to those bodily neccessities that occupy a small part of everyone’s day, one is pleasantly surprised to reach for the iron cast toilet paper holder, aside which sits a feature we all have...
Regardless of these pleas for peace, many right-wing religious Americans have continued to call for war. Often, they do not use Biblical passages supporting war, quite simply because such passages are not particularly prevalent in the Bible. Instead they use passages of solace or comfort, such as that from Psalm 23 which President Bush recited the night of Sept. 11, and do so in conjunction with their own battle cries. It’s a bit like beer commercials filled with beautiful people. They of course can’t claim that drinking beer will make you look like...
...want it to be a tribute to the people who lost someone in the tragedy and a source of comfort also,” Stein said. She said she hopes it will bring students some form of closure...
...Sept. 11 changed the rules: from New York to the tiniest American towns, people began playing the everything-bad-can-happen-to-me game, the instigation of which is the basic objective of terrorism. But at the same time, some New Yorkers, desperate for some shred of comfort, started playing a new version of the old game - I don't work on Wall Street, we told ourselves, I'm not in a tall enough building, and so on. In the media, our inoculation of choice was an old truism: terrorists don't kill their publicists...