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...Sunday in early August, Hilary and Ginny drive to another Comfort Zone Camp, where the topic of the day is the anniversary. The parents and the children divide into separate groups, but the feeling is the same in both rooms: we will not hang our grief on any timetable. The mothers spend a portion of the afternoon discussing wedding rings. About half, including Ginny, still have theirs on; a handful now also wear their husband's wedding band. The children worry about having to watch the towers fall during the television coverage of the anniversary. Hilary shares her anxiety with...
...that never end, such as the War on Drugs or the War on Crime. But this war will end, so perhaps a better name for it would be the First Terrorist War. It is far too soon to say when it will end or whether our constitutional survival will hang in the balance. But many things will change before we will again know the peace we took for granted before Sept...
Flying is in Jones' blood. Her great-grandfather was a test pilot. A picture of her mother in a solo glider hangs over the mantel in her home in Tampa, Fla. Jones, 40, began working for American in 1985. "I love airports, the excitement, the electricity, people going places," she says. "I would go to the airport even before I had a job and just hang out. I like the smell of jet fuel." But after Sept. 11, Jones started thinking about another career. She began taking college courses with the idea of getting her degree and becoming a paralegal...
MEANWHILE A Fistful of Denarii The men who hang around outside Rome's Colosseum dressed as gladiators and posing for snapshots with tourists might seem to have found an easy way of making a living. No longer. The city has new rules decreeing the sesterces they'll be able to charge for saying, "On my command, unleash hell...
...calls a week. "We put them on the air, and it links them with other kids who have the same opinions and feelings," says Robin Jones, director of operations. The network woos its listeners with roving vans that visit state fairs and other places where kids are likely to hang out and on-air sweepstakes with such prizes as a sleepover party at Carter's home in Key West, Fla. And, of course, it also takes advantage of its sister cable network. "When you're watching the Disney Channel, they play part of a song and then...