Word: griefs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tower fell. Still to be decided is the design for a memorial to the Trade Center victims, which will be chosen this year after an open competition and may be erected within the bathtub. Meanwhile, Libeskind has embedded the idea of recollection all through his design, moving vertically from grief to renewal...
...musical, find roommates, get dates and score concert tickets. Terry Larimore, 50, a psychotherapist in Larkspur, Calif., adopted a pet rat through the site last summer. When Fuzz died in January, Larimore posted a death notice and received over 70 condolence emails, including poems and links to pet-loss grief programs...
...manned space program. What should be a source of dreams and inspiration has become an unacceptably risky venture that claims the lives of our best, brightest and bravest. If manned space flight cannot be done right, it should not be done at all. The cost in human tragedy, national grief and billions of dollars is simply too high for marginally valuable science experiments. Let the debate begin, but in the meantime, let's not risk any more brave and gifted lives on an outdated venture. Our astronauts deserve better. BILL WHEELER Enfield, Conn...
...American people seem to be willing to give NASA a chance. In a TIME/CNN poll, 46% of respondents said they were "deeply upset" by the disaster, compared with 63% right after Challenger--suggesting either post-9/11 grief fatigue or an acceptance of the risks of space travel. Seventy-one percent did say space flight is worth the risks. But 64% want all shuttles grounded until the problem is fixed, and only 49% want money to be spent on a ship to replace the lost...
...Jesus' torture and death. To David Jaffé, senior curator at the National Gallery, Titian's empathy was his distinctive gift. When he depicts a beautiful woman, he says, "you can feel his real admiration. If he is painting a tragic subject, like a martyrdom, he is sharing the grief." He points to Titian's last picture, the Pietà of 1576: in a shadowy niche Mary struggles to support her son's dead body. Painted during the plague that destroyed a third of Venice's population of around 175,000, the work was an attempt to "influence...