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...prevent more attacks has slipped from 41% to 25%, according to the TIME/CNN poll. The President did his part last week to bolster public faith in the government's antiterror campaign. In his speech Thursday night, Bush managed a more subtle version of his exhortation to get back to normal, wherever that is these days. "There is a difference between being alert and being intimidated," he said. While these times require vigilance, he also called on citizens to perform community service or volunteer in some way, whether to tutor a kid or join a neighborhood watch or help...
...families spread out across the country, Thanksgiving may be the first reunion between those whose lives have been completely rewired and others who have had little trouble "getting back to normal." Some have already had a preview of how the nervous system evolves as you head deeper into the heartland. Dino Maniaci, 41, is a graphic designer who lives part time in lower Manhattan with his boyfriend and part time in Madison, Wis., where he runs a business; his family is still in Milwaukee, and on visits home after Sept. 11, he has sometimes felt like a veteran...
...image just seems, well, nice. And before Sept. 11 a literate reader would most likely have identified with the novel's neurotic, sophisticated grown children. Today it's hard for even the most jaded not to feel more like Enid, hoping against hope and reality for one more normal holiday...
...going to the doctor so often. April Simanoff has explained to her daughter why she goes to the doctor so much, and she takes the child along on some appointments. "Sabrina is so used to my going to the doctor that she just thinks it's a part of normal, everyday life," Simanoff says...
...like that certainly exist in everyday life; however, it takes a leap to put oneself in the world that begins on Platform Nine and Three-quarters at the train station. Part of the draw of these books is that exact leap, stretching one’s imagination further than normal life allows. Perhaps people today are losing the ability to use their imaginations. The escapism and entertainment provided by the Harry Potter books are just what people need to let themselves go, to enter another, sometimes more friendly but always more exciting, world for just a little while...