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...rather walk a mile in my city's downtown section than drive my car through it. No matter how well it is marketed, the Segway is little more than an expensive toy. RICARDO CAMPOS Viseu, Portugal...
Ground zero has become both a tourist-thronged landmark and an exclusive downtown club. The site itself is nearly level, with most of the recovery work now taking place underground. In some areas, the engineering crews from three different companies have cleared through two of the seven stories buried beneath the street; the cleanup task could finish by next spring. At any given time, 1,000 people work inside the "red zone"--the area of devastation still off limits to the public. Workers there have put up a Christmas tree and an iron cross found in the wreckage...
Where Wall Street expense accounts once dictated the local economy, businesses are now reinventing themselves for the new downtown ruling class--the cops and the National Guard, the construction workers and the tourists. Like several other retailers, the family owners of Laotian restaurant Mangez Avec Moi supplement their diminished income by selling F.D.N.Y. T shirts and hats on weekends. Moran's, an Irish steak house on the opposite end of the district, replaced its upscale menu with mozzarella sticks, potato skins and chicken fingers. "We couldn't offer a stuffed sole for $35 or a porterhouse," says Abby Lydon...
...suicide bombers struck the busy Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem, killing 11 Israelis. One of the bombers was from Hamas; the other had just resigned from the Palestinian General Intelligence...
ORIGINAL SIM If you liked The Sims, the best-selling computer game that simulates ordinary life, you'll definitely have the hots for The Sims: Hot Date ($30). Building on the virtual world of The Sims, Hot Date adds more complex relationships and a funky downtown setting with night spots where your Sims can now engage in several new "interactions"--including the "suave kiss." the "dip kiss," and, if necessary, the Springeresque "slap fight...