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...typically the result of fecal contamination in anything from hamburgers to swimming pools, sicken hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. In New York City this spring, a man was arrested after he was spotted spraying what turned out to be feces-laden water over the contents of a midtown salad bar (fortunately, no one got sick). A far more virulent strain of the bacterium called O157:H7 is sometimes fatal, but identifying and isolating the right strain is beyond the technical capabilities of most terrorists...
...remains are put into one of the 30,000 body bags Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ordered, and taken to staging areas near the blast, including what was once a Brooks Brothers store. From there they are shipped in refrigerated trucks to the medical examiner's office in midtown Manhattan for identification. Because of the number of dead, and the condition of the remains, identification is not always easy. The families of the missing have been asked to fill a seven-page form with information about the victims' dental records, scars, tattoos and inscriptions on wedding rings. Blood relatives have been asked...
Many of the businesses housed in the destroyed buildings will be moved to the downtown Manhattan space abandoned by failed dotcoms and the midtown offices of the recently laid-off. But megabusinesses that need acres of contiguous space are looking elsewhere. American Express, for example, which until Tuesday occupied a building near the Twin Towers that is now inaccessible, is reported to have signed leases in New Jersey. And the Wall Street Journal, forced to evacuate its World Financial Center headquarters on Tuesday, swiftly regrouped in makeshift offices in South Brunswick, N.J., and came out with an issue the next...
...adrenaline, daring anyone to knock the chip off his shoulder. Not good qualities for most jobs--unless you need to suit up every day against an adversary like fire. He made some spectacular rescues, including a courageous save as a lieutenant in 1991 on the roof of a midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands and, straining and skidding toward the parapet, lowered two fire fighters, one at a time, down into black, billowing smoke; each man grabbed a panicky victim from a windowsill perch. The lunchtime crowd below...
...York was targeted with such staggering precision and viciousness because the city, more than any other, actually does live up to the demonic Taliban caricature. We are the bin Ladenites' worst nightmare. We are rich. We swagger. We enjoy ourselves. From Wall Street to the media conglomerates of Midtown to the vast immigrant neighborhoods in all the boroughs, we embody the power and the glory of globalization. We are a profoundly secular city; nowhere else in America are people freer to worship their own gods or to be godless. No place outside Israel has more Jews. Blasphemy is common, irreverence...