Word: masking
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...which are more trouble to fill out than Palm Beach butterflies. On Wednesday, Giuliani summoned the three leading mayoral candidates to his makeshift office at the emergency operations center at Pier 92. There, surrounded by talismans - a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow of the crumbling Twin Towers, and a large Tupperware container of Wheaties - Giuliani shook the candidates down: either agree to give him three extra months in office, he said, or he'd run against them, and win. Well, one thing...
...mask A gun or firearm Neither Not sure...
...there may be a kind of reassuring not-in-my-backyard quality to this fear - 62 percent of respondents believed their town or city would not be a target, and the percentage who have "considered" purchasing disaster-related items - a gas mask, a gun, an anthrax or smallpox vaccine - did not top the 31 percent who had considered stocking up on bottled water. Sixty percent said life in their community had returned to normal since the attacks, yet 58 percent said the country was in deep and serious trouble - the highest percentage since...
...tons of it was vaporized and deposited in layers of dust over Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Environmental Protection Agency has been monitoring the area, and while traces of carcinogenic asbestos are showing up in some dust samples at Ground Zero, posing a danger for anyone not wearing a mask, it has not shown up in samples taken in the outlying boroughs. While it is uncertain whether asbestos was used in the towers, which were completed in 1973, it may have been used elsewhere in the area. "We have not seen anything that would lead to long-term environmental or health...
...everyone will understand the appeal of Iowa (Roadrunner), the new CD from Des Moines band Slipknot that's currently No. 3 on the album charts. It helps to think of its lightning-fast heavy metal as a form of country. Merle Haggard never headbanged in a Halloween mask, as Slipknot does, but he sang about feeling trapped in the middle of nowhere. That's exactly what vocalist Corey Taylor is doing when he sings of his home state, "Relax, it's over...You can never leave...