Word: shielding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...still hard for me to think about Sept. 11 sometimes. I'm still angry. It's hard to watch my daughters, Celia and Zaya, grow up and know they'll never see their father. They'll always be 9/11 girls, and I wish I could shield them from that. Everyone has an immediate pity for them. It is a sad thing, but the girls are also so happy. I've been lucky to remarry a wonderful man who's picked the ball right up. They adore him. I'm also still very close to Calvin's family. The children spent...
...mostly men in their 40s who were skinny and smoked a lot. I didn’t look them up.It was a sign of good faith, the same as entering someone’s home rather than staying in the safety of their doorway with a notebook as a shield. Sometimes a reporter’s only insurance is her own trust.At the end of the boat a little larger than a bedroom, Chris and Jacqui hovered at identical picking tables. Three bulbs shone on their bare hands as they flung the clear shrimp into bubbling tanks. They swept piles...
Through the late-afternoon sun shower, it hovers on the horizon: a fluoro-red-eyed monster, or a UFO. Then, as the rain clears, the strange beam of light becomes the reflector shield of a high-tech wheelbarrow being pushed along the Nullarbor by a tanned young man wearing a blue bandanna and a welcoming smile. "Every day I get at least two offers for a lift," says Matt Shaw, 32. "People are always stopping; I guess it breaks up the journey a bit for them." In the past 57 days, Shaw's journey has rarely stopped for long...
...high-level commander of a Sunni insurgent group takes an unexpected turn when he angrily demands, "Where are the Americans? Why aren't they protecting our people?" For two years, the man has boasted to me about his fighters' operations against U.S. soldiers. Now he wants them as a shield from the marauding militias. It's clear from his indignation that the irony escapes...
...service and support, supervising more than 3,000 people worldwide. "Coming out was really frightening, to be honest," she admits. "I had never done anything like that in my life." She feared that her credibility with colleagues would suffer. Martin, now the vice president of corporate marketing for Blue Shield of California, says the reaction from her Kodak staff was "very, very positive and kind. One woman said that I was the first lesbian she had ever met. We worked on it, and it turned out fine...