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...walked as quickly as I could out of the station, reflexively seeking out the comforting bulk of my office building in the nearby skyline, pushing through crowds until I reached the familiar doors. Then I stopped, suddenly paralyzed by another thought: What makes me think I?m any safer here than I was in the subway, or on the street or in a restaurant having dinner...
Critics counter that there must be other, less intrusive ways to make intersections safer, such as lengthening the yellow light or adding turn lanes. "I object to this fixation we have with cameras and electronically gathered information," says Barr. "It places too much confidence in technology." That confidence, as Washington residents have learned, can be misplaced. The city removed one camera last May that had generated more than 19,000 tickets at a particularly confusing intersection. In San Diego, faulty sensors made drivers appear to be going faster than they really were. The city suspended the system in July, pending...
...widened circle is an essential theme for Ensler. The patriarchal nuclear family is "a deadly institution," she says. "It exists in enormous isolation, disconnected from the broader community, and when you're isolated like that, there are no watchdogs. But when you're exposed to other people, it's safer--you can see that life can be different." Ensler does believe wholeheartedly in the extended family, and in the broadest sense. She fights for the women of Afghanistan and of Burma and passionately believes their best hope, and ours, is finding the common bonds. After all, pregnant is pregnant...
...sprinklers. "Everyone watch your step," people called out. "Be careful!" The smell of jet fuel suffused the building. Hallways collapsed, flames shot out of a men's room. By the time they reached the lobby, they just wanted to get out--but the streets didn't look any safer. "It was chaos out there," Shields says. "Finally we ran for it." They raced into the street in time to see the second plane bearing down. Even as they ran away, there were still people standing around in the lobby waiting to be told what to do. "There were no emergency...
...least, is moving toward the same domestic-security vigilance as that "rest of the world" where foreign investors live. And a show of leadership and serious-minded strategy by this administration might even give the impression that we can emerge from this blood struggle stronger and safer than when we entered...