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Officials also evacuated the nearby Copley Place Mall and closed the Boston Public Library and the Prudential Center—which had already posted extra security at its entrances in the wake of Tuesday’s attacks...
...Washington, the Pentagon was evacuated after another commercial airline crashed into the building. A short time later, part of the building collapsed. A fire was also reported on the Mall. The White House, the Capitol and other government buildings were also evacuated, and Washington became a ghost town. If the terrorists sought to undermine the conduct of government, they succeeded at least for the day. They may not, however, have hit all of their targets: Wednesday afternoon, White House officials reported that both the White House and Air Force One were targets of the terrorist attacks; officials speculate the plane...
...have gotten a glimpse of this already, and not just at the $5 gas pumps. September has already lost two full days of retail sales, and every day spent mourning vicariously in front of a television is a day not spent at the mall - the Gulf War did the height of its economic damage merely by constituting weeks of irresistible viewing. Inevitably, people will realize that their personal situations have not changed - they still need a new car, a new refrigerator, the new Bob Dylan album. But in the areas of consumer spending that are the first to suffer from...
...their skylines, wondering if they would be different in the morning. The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated, as were colleges and museums. Disney World shut down, and Major League Baseball canceled its games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's-eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them out or shut them...
...colonization of prime space in the Square by closet-sized cell phone stores. Although we have no video store, no late-night sesame-seed pizza and no soup noodles, we do have Hootenanny, Abercrombie and the Gap—and while we walk through the upscale strip mall that Harvard Square has become, we can at least communicate our misery to each other on an embarrassment of cellular phones...