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...locks, no stair guards for this moment, and parents of six-year-olds and 26-year-olds find themselves confounded by their inability to do their most basic job. "I feel it has changed my relationship with my children," says George Egan, a Pittsburgh, Pa., investment banker, of the fallout from the attacks. He and his wife Annie have two sets of twins, ages 3 and 6. "When I go upstairs at night to check on them I now feel somehow less confident in my ability to keep them safe. I try hard to keep them out of harm...
...Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's comments in India Monday that he expected that the war against the Taliban would not go on for years appeared to have been directed at regional allies concerned at the negative domestic fallout from a protracted bombing campaign. After all, back home the Pentagon is having to massage the complex and sometimes contradictory message that America's patience is required for a war that will inevitably be drawn-out and costly, but also that substantial progress is being made and the enemy is on the ropes. European allies may have expressed skepticism over the nature...
...Fallout from the spectacular breach was immediate; lawmakers called for fines against United Airlines, which hired Argenbright, the private security outfit conducting the screenings. The largest airport security operation in the country, Argenbright is already under investigation for lying about performing background checks on employees at the Philadelphia International Airport. The O?Hare workers involved have been suspended...
...While most political leaders in the Islamic world are struggling to cope with the repercussions of the terror strikes in the U.S., the fallout from the attacks has played entirely in Mahathir's favor. Not only has PAS lost ground, but the opposition alliance that scarred UMNO badly in elections two years ago has collapsed, its component parties in disarray. Only a few months ago, senior UMNO members acknowledged privately that Mahathir's personal unpopularity over the Anwar affair could cause a disastrous plunge in support among the party's core constituency, the indigenous Malay Muslims who make up about...
...anxiety are known to trigger phobias: many people develop an aversion to flying after an individual crisis, such as the death of a relative. And global events like the Gulf War in 1991-92 and last year's Concorde crash can elicit a mass response. Experts say the fallout from the hijackings and attacks on New York City and Washington is likely to exceed anything they've seen. Flyers have to cope with the recent deaths, fear of terrorism and a depressing world economy. "There's just so much grief around," says Jane Sexton, 30, a Hong Kong marketing executive...