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...With that in mind, on the same day the alert went out from Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission quietly directed plants to bolster their perimeter defenses. Eleven states have already called up the National Guard to help in that effort. The FAA also issued an 11.5-mile no-fly zone for small planes (though it is in effect for only about a week), and F-16 fighter pilots are at the ready. While most reactors were built to withstand the impact of a small aircraft, a 1982 study concluded that a commercial airplane flying at high speed...
...pair of BLU-82 "daisy cutters"--15,000-lb., minivan-size killing machines carried one at a time in the belly of MC-130 cargo planes. When detonated three feet above the ground, the bomb's slurry of ammonium nitrate and aluminum dust wipes out everything within a half-mile radius. Those who are not killed often suffer ruptured lungs or broken eardrums...
Some time between turning off the bridge to face the vibrant crowds along First Avenue, and grasping my mother’s hand for a fleeting moment just before mile 18, I changed my mind. I decided that a marathon is about defying expectations and challenging the limits of human achievement. I run in defiance of the voice inside me that says I cannot, and my success reaffirms a deep confidence I have in the human ability to dream the impossible, and to realize such wild dreams. Tragically, I feel that the World Trade Center disaster is testimony...
...wondered about this as I took my bike out Sunday morning to do a familiar loop around my neighborhood (I live a half mile away from World Trade Center). Squeezing between police cars and roadblocks, I soon turned around, mostly because the smell––an acrid, chemical smell-had settled permanently in the air. Making a slow turn onto my street, I looked up, and for the first time in the fifteen years that I have been looking up, the view had irrevocably, permanently changed. My eye struggled to fill in the blank behind the yellow...
...Battery Park City is a stroller?s balm on a summer day. Walk down the mile-and-a-quarter promenade - past the lovers on the lawn, the kids in their rubberized playground, the skateboarders pretending that Manhattan is Manhattan Beach, the al fresco diners at Steamer?s Landing. Stop to admire the imposing bandshell of the World Financial Center?s Winter Garden; it has enough wonderfully wasted space to remind me of the dear dead original Penn Station. And across the plaza, the Hudson River, potent and polluted, Circe seducer of the first European settlers to this tiny plot...