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...move through all this rubble at our own pace, and it's not fair to hold others back or drag them along faster than their balance allows. People confess that they have stopped returning phone calls from longtime friends who have lost their footing. The conversation is getting too raw between those who believe the world has changed forever and those who may agree but still want to move on. You're wallowing in misery. No, you're in denial. But I can't sleep. I don't want to talk about it anymore. A Chicago psychotherapist goes to church...
Nancy Gibbs put words to the feelings many of us have not been able to express adequately [MOURNING IN AMERICA, Sept. 24]. She captured our raw emotions, our evolving realization that the comfortable life we had been accustomed to changed forever on that fateful Tuesday. I don't want to take a moment or a person in my life for granted. I wrote a note to a cousin I haven't seen in years, thanking him for the job he does every day as a fireman. Bless you, Nancy, for stating so eloquently what we have been groping...
Even then, the boy who spoke and read Japanese before learning Portuguese was melding cultures. In his fan paintings, Fukuda used bright red, reflecting the brilliant tones of the raw coffee berries and the bougainvillea shrubs that illuminated the South American topography that surrounded him. The tropical palette has become his trademark. "If I don't use red, the painting seems somewhat deadened," he says. But he adds, "No tone can fight against another tone. There must be harmony." In a painting he completed this year, Composition on a Red Background, he contrasts his reds with calmer gray and brown...
...Ashcroft and his aides would not reveal precisely what information prompted their extraordinary alert. But senior officials say the raw data underlying the warning came from an overseas source developed by the CIA and buttressed by snippets of information gleaned through other intelligence efforts around the world. Without offering any specifics, the source - whose reliability is still uncertain - warned that al-Qaeda will strike at any moment. As an official puts it, the information may or may not be credible, "but nobody's going to take a chance...
Some 850,000 facilities in the U.S. handle hazardous chemicals. Many substances that have benign industrial uses, such as metal cleaning or photo developing, can in theory be turned into dangerous weapons. But gaining access to plants, either for sabotage or to get raw materials, is difficult. Employees handling hazardous materials undergo security background checks, and chemical manufacturers across the country last week were double-checking their employee rolls. Since Sept. 11, most facilities have barred outside visitors and allowed only authorized personnel to enter...