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...requiring them to take mandatory tests. All but two of the licenses covered haz-mat transport. By the end of last week, all 20 men were in custody. The FBI said that they did not appear to have a connection to the Sept. 11 attacks. But that was scant comfort; they might have had their own scary plans. At the least, the scam exposed gaping holes in the haz-mat licensing process--there are 2.5 million of the licenses nationwide, and in some states they're a notorious source of kickbacks...
...that we ever will again, if normal means Sept. 10. In our mourning for the way we were, there is some comfort in admitting that our world back then was not as safe as we thought; and it may not now be quite as dangerous as it seems. It helps to find people whose fears are whirling out of control, because they make you feel sane and brave by comparison. A rich couple in Coral Gables, Fla., buys gas masks and chemical suits for the whole family; bemused neighbors inquire whether they are designer label. At least one Hollywood celebrity...
...chase it. In New York it means leaving home two hours earlier if you have to drive over a bridge, because it takes a while for the guards to crawl over and under and through every 18-wheeler that is trying to get into Manhattan. But it was a comfort in the midtown crush, finally, to hear a driver yell, "Hey, move the car, jerk!" and sense the return of vehicular hostility; that felt like normal too. Miss America visited ground zero, as did Paul Newman and John Travolta and the cast of The Sopranos. The war zone...
...Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex: "As parents, we have to be able to express our values clearly, what we value and why. And we have to help our kids clarify their own values." Roffman says parents should not step outside their own personal comfort zone to accommodate kids. "I see parents all the time who say, 'I know they're going to do it anyway, so I might as well just give in.' That is not true. Parents need to provide safe and healthy limits around their child's behavior...
...after Sept. 11 has sent the whole thing tumbling toward the abyss. And Greenspan knows that while his cuts so far haven?t helped discernibly, they haven?t hurt either - if only because after 14 years at the helm, the sight of a fighting Fed has considerable power to comfort businesses and consumers alike...