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...first, they all looked at their shoes. Then, just as she did at school whenever the teacher looked desperate, Hilary confidently spoke up, volunteering, "My dad was known for his Argyle socks, and we donated some of those socks to the rescuers at ground zero." She felt an immediate rush; soon the other kids were eagerly relating memories of their fathers...
Perez stifled the urge to rush to the aid of the downed men; he knew he would be mowed down if he tried. Instead he stood and began blazing away with his M-4 rifle. That forced the al-Qaeda fighters to take cover in the rocks several hun-dred yards away--and stop firing--as the wounded Americans limped to a safer spot. "He showed almost no concern for his body," says Sergeant Jeffrey Grothause, one of Perez's soldiers. "He's up there, and rounds are flying all around him, in between his legs, and he doesn...
...would start a new life again, a good life," she says. "In that stadium, the Taliban used to execute women. But people clapped for me, and Hamid Karzai also made me a general in that stadium." As she leaped from the helicopter that day, she welcomed the old rush. "It is a terrible wind," she says. "But we're not afraid, because we know it's good when the wind blows in your face...
...dueling needs of security and commerce have forced Customs and the major automakers to rush into service a paperless reporting system called the National Customs Automation Program (NCAP). General Motors, which developed the software, is sharing it with its rivals; the system transmits to customs computers advance information about trucks and drivers dispatched from Canada to the U.S. When the driver arrives at the inspection booth, he simply hands over a bar-coded document, gets scanned and, if everything matches, goes on his way. GM is experimenting with truck-mounted transponders to beam the data to the customs booth while...
Here again, though, the headlong rush to embrace violence is producing a backlash. Suicide attacks have proved so repugnant in Europe and the U.S. that they have begun to erode support for the Palestinian cause there. They have also contributed significantly to the free hand wielded by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has completely destroyed the infrastructure of the West Bank. Palestinian intellectuals and members of civil society have also recognized the bombings as a political disaster and are leading calls for their immediate halt. In taking the intifadeh hostage, Islamic radicals waging jihad have won, at best...