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...nearly 900 survivors. But the range was enormous. Why did certain people leave immediately while others lingered for as long as half an hour? Some were helping co-workers. Others were disabled. And in Tower 2, many were following fatally flawed directions to stay put. But eventually everyone saw smoke, smelled jet fuel or heard someone giving the order to leave. Many called relatives. About 1,000 took the time to shut down their computers, according to NIST...
...speak or move. "My mind was almost blank. I didn't even hear what was going on," she told an Orange County Register reporter years later. But her husband Paul Heck, 65, reacted immediately. He ordered his wife to get off the plane. She followed him through the smoke "like a zombie," she said. Just before they jumped out of a hole in the left side of the craft, she looked back at her friend Lorraine Larson, who was just sitting there, looking straight ahead, her mouth slightly open, hands folded in her lap. Like dozens of others, she would...
...only the second day of voting by the 80 cardinals who had gathered there to name Pope John XXIII's successor. But no one anticipated a long conclave--and the expectations were not wrong. At 11:22, smoke began billowing from the rickety metal chimney that led upward from the Sistine Chapel, where in a ceremonial stove the used ballots were burned. Twice the day before, a few puffs of white had first appeared, but then the smoke had turned a disappointing black--the signal that no Pope had been chosen. This time there was no mistake: the smoke...
...Smoking Room (BBC America, Saturdays, 9 P.M. E.T.) The BBC's The Office introduced us to the uncomfortable pleasures of working. This sitcom introduces us to the uncomfortable pleasures of not working. Each episode, set in an office break room, follows the meandering conversations of office malcontents as they puff cancer sticks, stave off boredom and consider such weighty matters as how the theme song to Little House on the Prairie went. It's a worthwhile way to kill half an hour--without the risk of secondhand smoke...
...Officers reported to Winthrop House in response to the alleged scent of marijuana wafting in the building. The responding officers determined the scent was actually cigar smoke...