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...that have the most to be thankful for, those in which one member escaped the Sept. 11 attack and has been living in a parallel universe ever since. "It's impossible to explain to anyone who wasn't there," says Michael Serio, a freshman at Pace University in lower Manhattan whose dorm room shook when the planes crashed three blocks away. An aspiring doctor, he ran to the scene and spent the next 36 hours helping the rescue workers, setting up IVs for dehydrated fire fighters and hauling away debris and body parts. In that time, he could...
...whose lives have been completely rewired and others who have had little trouble "getting back to normal." Some have already had a preview of how the nervous system evolves as you head deeper into the heartland. Dino Maniaci, 41, is a graphic designer who lives part time in lower Manhattan with his boyfriend and part time in Madison, Wis., where he runs a business; his family is still in Milwaukee, and on visits home after Sept. 11, he has sometimes felt like a veteran of a foreign war. "In New York we were strategizing about how to prepare: we need...
...same period last year. Zales Jewelers is selling more crosses. The Religion News Service says Koran sales in the U.S. have quintupled since the attacks. Even after the initial burst of fervor subsided, many churches and synagogues report, attendance is up 5% to 10%, though some in places like Manhattan are still seeing twice as many people as before. Ministers find that people are not simply more interested in faith than before; they are especially interested in evil. "Since Sept. 11, I have to confess, I've had as many thoughts about the devil as I have about God," says...
That bowling alley is the setting of TV's Ed, in which a New York City lawyer quits his high-powered firm to move home to Stuckeyville, Ohio, woo his high school crush and buy the local Stuckeybowl lanes. Today half the stressed-out skyscraper workers in Manhattan have a comparable escape fantasy, but Ed and its newly resonant theme of fleeing to the past debuted more than a year ago. And we have seen similar homecoming stories on Providence (L.A. plastic surgeon moves home, works in clinic), Judging Amy (big-city lawyer moves home, becomes a judge) and this...
...boyish-looking 39, Hough hails from Cheshire, England. He studied at New York City's Juilliard School and now splits his time between London and Manhattan. "New York is a wonderful place to live as an artist," he says wryly, "so long as one has the self-discipline to turn off the phone...