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...reward Saturday at the Concert for New York City in Madison Square Garden, a benefit for Sept. 11 attack victims that McCartney headlined. A Woodstock's worth of musicians did their thing, including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, the Who and Elton John. Short films by Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese and others paid homage to the city's spirit, and nonmusical performers stormed the stage in droves (Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Reese Witherspoon and many others). As one of them, Saturday Night Live comic and "huge Paul McCartney fan" Jimmy Fallon, said, "It's really cool when...
...10th month after the bombing, five more babies came into the world in Oklahoma City hospitals than in the state's other urban counties. A year later, it was 16 more births a month; two years later, 37. University of Oklahoma researcher Joseph Lee Rodgers attributes the spike to a desire to replace life and a need, in a time of instability, to solidify one's role in the world...
Following a brief spike in the oil markets after Sept. 11, the benchmark price of Brent crude has slipped from around $29 per bbl. to between $21 and $23. Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a leading source of industry analysis, is forecasting a fourth-quarter average price of $23.75. The reason is simple. Even before Sept. 11, the global economy was entering a recession. That recession is now likely to be deeper, though not necessarily longer, as nervous consumers and business executives put off discretionary spending. The impact of a global downturn on the demand for energy "is the dominant factor...
...think we need to recognize the cyclical nature of this story: We keep passing these milestones after the attacks - Thursday was the one-month anniversary - and so each time that happens, alarm is going to spike briefly...
...many--grief, anger, shame, helplessness--but we may look back on them as the simplest ones we experienced during this chapter of history. And our response has already been more complex than you might think. Some have predicted a return to light escapism. Video-rental stores reported a spike in comedy rentals. MGM expanded the comedy Legally Blonde onto 1,300 screens after movie houses began pleading for feel-good fare. But rentals of action movies were also up, despite Hollywood's breast beating over violence. If there's one thing those bloody blockbusters leave you with, after...