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...there's nothing metaphorical about what happened to Genelle Guzman, 31, an office manager who worked on the 64th floor of Tower 1. She called her boyfriend, Roger McMillan, just after the blast and told him she was waiting at her desk, as instructed over the loudspeaker. McMillan, 38, a pressman for a direct-mail company, could see the explosions from his workplace, and told her to get out and meet him in front of Century 21, a discount fashion emporium across from the Trade Center...
...human body, doctors have shaded in burned areas and included handwritten calculations of the extent of the damage. In many cases, more than 70% of the body is darkened. "The intense heat and the inability to get away [are what] makes these burns so severe," says Dr. Roger Yurt, director of the unit. One patient, scorched by a fireball of debris, lies almost completely swathed in bandages under a tent of heat shields and blankets. Another, propelled forward by a ruptured steam pipe, is scorched along his back and the back of his legs but was miraculously spared...
...working stiffs rose to the occasion. But there shouldn't be. The FGB would have helped perhaps, by sending his chauffeur back in to help. The surprise comes in part because those celebrated, elevated, lionized, and lavishly compensated in our society are people like Jack Welch and Bill Gates, Roger Clemens and Tom Cruise, not firefighters and teachers and nurses and paramedics. Had you seen a fireman interviewed on prime time TV before this week, before 300 of his fellow firefighters died saving others and his boots melted on his feet after digging 24 hours at a stretch in ruins...
Meyer Professor of Middle East History E. Roger Owen was already flying from Europe toward Boston when his flight was diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he has remained since Tuesday...
...Florida yesterday, FBI agents were interviewing three Saudi Arabian flight engineers who are taking classes at Flightsafety International’s flight school in Vero Beach, Fla., said company spokesperson Roger Ritchie...