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...Bottled water --Nonperishable food --Flashlight --Portable radio --Batteries --Goggles --Mask or scarf --Thermal blanket --First...
...great difference, of course, is visible in lower Manhattan; Moscow never did drop the Big One. But one day, after they've scoured the Web for a gas mask, and told one another that they're quite comfortable with the idea that airports need to look like armed camps, Americans might heed Daniel Seidemann's wise words. Seidemann is an Israeli lawyer, and hence a man for whom homeland security is an existential matter. "Society needs a balance between Athens and Sparta," he says. "If you're Athens, there's no security. If you're Sparta, you have security...
...stores of late by patriotism and deep discounts, keep coming out in greater numbers as the winter comes? When they refinance their mortgages, will they spend the extra dough? Or will their confidence collapse under mounting personal debt, deflated portfolios, uncertain job prospects, and well, the whole gas-mask-on-the-cover-of-TIME-Magazine thing...
...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...
...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...