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...building in New York and Washington and all across the country, faith and fear and resolve in a tight braid. Because the killers who hate us did the unthinkable, nothing is unthinkable now. A plume of grill smoke venting from a Manhattan steak house leads to the evacuation of midtown office towers. Does every unclaimed package tick? After the Pentagon was hit, generals called their families and told them not to drink the water, it could be poisoned. Sales of guns and gas masks spiked. The NFL canceled its games for the first time ever; bomb scares emptied 90 sites...
...time I left the New York Stock Exchange at mid-morning Monday and headed north in search of a subway back to midtown, I was closer than I?d ever been to knowing what it was to lose a hundred friends in an hour. The Dow?s losses had stabilized in the 600-point range by mid-morning, and the only thing to do was to shuffle back though the smoke and the dust and an impertinent sun, back to my usual market-watching perch in front of the TV in my cubicle. Just in case the bottom dropped...
...little earlier than usual last Tuesday. My day, perhaps like yours, was shaping up to be pretty busy, so I wanted to get a head start. A little before 8 a.m., I kissed my wife and son goodbye and headed to TIME's offices in midtown Manhattan. By 8:30, I was at my desk, answering e-mails. Shortly before 9 a.m., Steve Koepp, the deputy managing editor, called on his cell phone from downtown. Walking his son to school, he could see that a plane had crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center...
Jennifer Mrowka ’01 was at a computer training facility in midtown Manhattan when she began to see photos of the towers on the screens of others who had simply intended to read the daily news. She thought it was a practical joke...
...This place used to be called Pizza Pizzaz, and retains that spirit, with its indoor play area for kids. Caroline went romping and jumping with Julia, and the kids' parents exchanged greetings: "Quite a day." Awful." I told Julia's mother that my wife was in New York - in midtown - and hoping that trains would roll soon from Grand Central...