Word: hudsons
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...YORK, N.Y.—Columbia’s athletic complex is located just off the scenic Hudson River, and a flock of seagulls began circling Wien Stadium just before the start of Saturday’s game. To the Light Blue faithful below, they must have looked like vultures...
American Express Bank, which lost none of its 350 employees despite the destruction of its offices at 7 World Trade Center, relocated to three underground bunkers across the Hudson River in Weehawken, N.J. Plastic was peeled off standby PCs. Backup computer tapes were sent in by messenger. Plans were in place to reroute communications from international banking networks, but by the time the system was up, operators were hours behind. "You cater to the worst scenario, but this was worse than we had planned for," says Norman Gilchrist, head of global operations. Yet within 12 hours of the attacks...
...World Trade Center attack, the writer John McPhee explored with nuclear physicist Ted Taylor the question of how you could topple the Twin Towers with a small atomic bomb. Positioned correctly, McPhee reported, a nuke a tenth as powerful as Hiroshima's could knock a tower into the Hudson River...
...Certainly countless lives could have been saved if the Air Force planes tailing the two WTC-bound airliners had fired away and put the debris in the Hudson River. The national trauma would have been greatly mitigated. But America, having averted the unthinkable, would then be left with something else - a government with American blood on its hands. Such stains, however, may demand an accountability that Maj. Gen. Larry K. Arnold, a two-star at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, may not have the stature to offer...
...World Trade Center attack, the writer John McPhee explored with nuclear physicist Ted Taylor the question of how you could topple the Twin Towers with a small atomic bomb. Positioned correctly, McPhee reported, a nuke a tenth as powerful as Hiroshima's could knock a tower into the Hudson River...