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...anxiety level was already plenty high. Anthrax exposure was appearing at all the networks, in the midtown Manhattan office of New York Governor George Pataki and among lab and postal workers who had handled suspicious letters. The Capitol had been on edge for weeks; even the undersides of cars carrying House and Senate leaders were being checked with big dentist's mirrors, sniffed by dogs and searched for bombs. The vague but ominous FBI warnings had left even the leaders spooked. "I worry in the Capitol," Senate minority leader Trent Lott admitted. "We minimize the threat, perhaps irresponsibly. We have...
...anxiety level was already plenty high. Anthrax exposure was appearing at all the networks, in the midtown Manhattan office of New York Governor George Pataki and among lab and postal workers who had handled suspicious letters. The Capitol had been on edge for weeks; even the undersides of cars carrying House and Senate leaders were being checked with big dentist's mirrors, sniffed by dogs and searched for bombs. The vague but ominous FBI warnings had left even the leaders spooked. "I worry in the Capitol," Senate minority leader Trent Lott admitted. "We minimize the threat, perhaps irresponsibly. We have...
...York it means leaving home two hours earlier if you have to drive over a bridge, because it takes a while for the guards to crawl over and under and through every 18-wheeler that is trying to get into Manhattan. But it was a comfort in the midtown crush, finally, to hear a driver yell, "Hey, move the car, jerk!" and sense the return of vehicular hostility; that felt like normal too. Miss America visited ground zero, as did Paul Newman and John Travolta and the cast of The Sopranos. The war zone is a shrine, and a circus...
...attacks and for a few hours on a day the following week on the rumor of another hijacked plane. Many Wall Street firms, in fact, recovered quickly because their work forces were dispersed. While Morgan Stanley's retail brokerage business occupied the World Trade Center, its headquarters are in midtown Manhattan, and a trust-services division is based in Jersey City, N.J. "Companies should be in low-profile locations for many good business reasons, not just for security," says retired Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and now an adviser to GlobalOptions, a corporate security...
...York it means leaving home two hours earlier if you have to drive over a bridge, because it takes a while for the guards to crawl over and under and through every 18-wheeler that is trying to get into Manhattan. But it was a comfort in the midtown crush, finally, to hear a driver yell, "Hey, move the car, jerk!" and sense the return of vehicular hostility; that felt like normal too. Miss America visited ground zero, as did Paul Newman and John Travolta and the cast of The Sopranos. The war zone is a shrine, and a circus...