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...guarding against weapons of mass destruction may miss the real threat. When 100 Florida law-enforcement officials, utility executives and emergency-response officials met in Tallahassee last week, it wasn't a nuclear or biological threat that was most on their mind. It was a conventional attack on the Port of Miami, on the Sunshine Skyway that spans Tampa Bay, or on that most American of symbols, Walt Disney World...
...Karachi, the densely packed southern port where Attiya and Aslam live, encompasses all the tensions of Pakistan. At one end of the city, well-dressed young men and women pay $20 on a Saturday night to drink and dance at an exclusive disco. At the other end, an entire neighborhood enforces prayer, bans cable TV and even smashes its television sets in Taliban-style protest. Attiya believes that such pockets of extreme piousness and intolerance will spread more widely. "In a few years, Pakistan and Afghanistan will be the same," she says. Karachi has just brought in a rabidly conservative...
...morning, then managed the ego of the Rev. Jesse Jackson as he took advantage of Giuliani's media entourage to nominate himself negotiator in chief. In the evening, Giuliani called on a stricken crowd at Temple Emanu-El to stand and applaud Neil Levin, the head of the Port Authority, who died helping his employees escape. Reverting to tireless cheerleader, he ended his day at Yankee Stadium watching Roger Clemens pitch against Tampa...
There were smaller but no less precious miracles. Nishikant Kapatker, a city planner for the Port Authority, went in at 8:30 a.m., a half-hour early because he and his wife Jaya, who worked in the nearby American Express Building, expected to go on vacation that evening. Thrown from his chair by the impact of Flight 11, he quickly made his way downstairs, watching 20 or 30 fire fighters climbing up, huffing and puffing toward death...
...this point, no one at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owned the buildings, is prepared to make any such decisions--and even the mayor has admitted that "rebuild" doesn't necessarily mean rebuild in their original form...