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...would hazard a guess that this was not a failure of physical security. So eliminating curb-side check-ins, better training for x-ray machine guards, bomb-sniffing dogs, and other proposed remedies are unlikely to prevent this sort of crime,” said Andrew Moravcsik, a government professor at the Center for European Studies...
...Architect Bob Shelton had his foot in a cast; he'd broken it falling off a curb two weeks ago. He heard the explosion of the first plane hitting the north tower from his 56th-floor office in the south tower. As he made his way down the stairwell, his building came under attack as well. "You could hear the building cracking. It sounded like when you have a bunch of spaghetti, and you break it in half to boil it." Shelton knew that what he was hearing was bad. "It was structural failure," Shelton says. "Once a building like...
...help curb the confused mess of parental ideals into which children are born, the government needs to start offering optional parenting classes, with tax write-offs or health insurance deductions as an incentive. The earlier parents take them the better; courses during pregnancy could qualify for a hospital bill deduction...
...lower the political temperature in the West Bank and Gaza. Essentially they're offering Arab assistance in pressing Arafat to tamp down violence if Washington will press Israel to show restraint and to make the concessions, in line with the Mitchell recommendations, that would give Arafat political cover to curb the militants...
...seconds later. My mom was relieved to see that I was alive, and that her son’s Harvard education had not literally been washed down the drain. Another time, a frantic-looking white teenager tried to break into my apartment just as I pulled up to the curb. He didn’t get in, but I was freaked out. There have also been a few tendencies of living alone, in the South, that have stuck out. I’ve learned how to cook, at least minimally. (When I got here, I didn’t even...