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Huffman Aviation, tucked on Florida's Gulf Coast between Tampa and Fort Myers, is just such a place. The weather is good. Gas and airplane rentals are cheap--you can fly a Cessna 150 single-engine plane for $55 an hour, 40% less than what you might pay in a big city. The airport cafe is open, serving hot, cheap food with aviation nicknames like "Emergency Descent," a bacon cheeseburger...
Hollywood, Fla., is an overlooked burg outshone by Miami on one side and Fort Lauderdale on the other, trying to grab some limelight with a string of sushi and blues restaurants. One such establishment is Shuckums Oyster Pub and Seafood Grill, a music showcase with the requisite life-size shark mounted on an ocean-colored wall. It was at Shuckums, on Sept. 8, that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi did some pre-mass murder tippling. Atta drank vodka and orange juice, while Al-Shehhi preferred rum and cokes, five drinks apiece. "They were wasted," the bartender recalled, and Atta...
...disaffected among the world's 1 billion Muslims. That's why top-quality surveillance and policing are as much a part of the fight against terrorism as anything armies might do. You can't lob a cruise missile at Delray Beach, Fla., or dispatch a Delta Force squad to Fort Lee, N.J.--though both towns seem to have been home, at least for a while, to some of those who hijacked the planes last week...
...religious zealots? Apparently their love of the Koran allowed them to overlook its prohibitions on drinking and cavorting with women. (Of course, they also overlooked the Koran's prohibitions on shedding innocent blood, a point rightly made by Muslims around the globe who have swiftly denounced the attack.) The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported that one of the hijackers who rented a furnished apartment felt ambivalently about pictures of women in bathing suits at the furnished apartment he rented. "I had some pictures of 1920s women, says the apartment owner, Richard Surma. They were holding umbrellas and wearing long pantaloons...
...seem to have enough perspective to be able to pull that off. They get a lot of flack for saying tennis isn't the only thing in their life--for planning for their next careers by spending autumns learning how to dart dresses in the same class at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., fashion college next to a strip mall--but that may be the only thing that gets them through a sibling rivalry that could otherwise make Cain and Abel seem like Waltons...